Asparagus Sultan
#6a8e22
A green that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6a8e22
RGB
106, 142, 34
OKLCh
59.9% 0.139 126.7°
CIELAB (D50)
54.8, -25.0, 49.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.5; on black, Lc -36.2. 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 9.4 and 9.2 and 46.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.81:1 — large text only
Black text
5.51:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.51:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f820e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6a8e22
protanopia
#8b8b21 · ΔE00 9.4
deuteranopia
#858525 · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#7e7ea9 · ΔE00 46.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScallion at ΔE00 0.21: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ScallionΔE00 0.21 · #6b8e23
- Italian BuckthornΔE00 0.8 · #6b8c23
- Olive ThrillΔE00 1.15 · #6d8e2c
- Sap GreenΔE00 2.703 · #5c8b15
- Pont MossΔE00 3.175 · #5f9228
- CanopyΔE00 3.452 · #728f02
- Fresh HerbΔE00 3.502 · #77913b
- Siskin SproutΔE00 3.508 · #7a942e
- Pesto di RucolaΔE00 3.546 · #748a35
- Weeping FigΔE00 3.789 · #5d8727
- Maximum GreenΔE00 3.924 · #5e8c31
- Gǎn Lǎn Lǜ GreenΔE00 3.926 · #658b38
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.