Italian Basil
#5f6957
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5f6957
RGB
95, 105, 87
OKLCh
50.7% 0.030 131.2°
CIELAB (D50)
43.1, -6.7, 8.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.8; on black, Lc -23.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 5.2 and 18.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.76:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.64:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.76:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5f6957
protanopia
#686857 · ΔE00 5.1
deuteranopia
#666657 · ΔE00 5.2
tritanopia
#646474 · ΔE00 18.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLess Traveled at ΔE00 0.904: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Less TraveledΔE00 0.904 · #5d6957
- WimbledonΔE00 1.499 · #626d5b
- ShireΔE00 1.729 · #646b59
- Cypress VineΔE00 1.958 · #5e6552
- InlandΔE00 1.992 · #606b54
- Royal OrchardΔE00 2.142 · #5f6d59
- TerrariumΔE00 2.182 · #5f6d5c
- Deep BottlebrushΔE00 2.186 · #5e675a
- Bracken GreenΔE00 2.416 · #626f5d
- Pine Cone PassΔE00 2.436 · #5c6456
- Rosemary SprigΔE00 2.56 · #626a52
- Amazon FoliageΔE00 2.63 · #606553
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.