HueComb

Bitter Leaf

#669841

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#669841

RGB

102, 152, 65

OKLCh

62.4% 0.130 133.8°

CIELAB (D50)

57.8, -29.1, 39.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.6; on black, Lc -40.1. 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 12.4 and 12.1 and 49.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.42:1 — large text only

Black text

6.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#53832b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#669841

protanopia

#939341 · ΔE00 12.4

deuteranopia

#8c8c43 · ΔE00 12.1

tritanopia

#8282cb · ΔE00 49.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParisian Green at ΔE00 1.502: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.