Leaf
#71aa34
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#71aa34
RGB
113, 170, 52
OKLCh
67.5% 0.160 131.8°
CIELAB (D50)
63.9, -33.6, 51.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% 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 53.7; on black, Lc -48.1. 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 12.9 and 12.6 and 54.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.80:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#508400 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#71aa34
protanopia
#a5a533 · ΔE00 12.9
deuteranopia
#9c9c38 · ΔE00 12.6
tritanopia
#9191e0 · ΔE00 54.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMamba Green at ΔE00 1.202: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mamba GreenΔE00 1.202 · #77ad3b
- Alpine MeadowΔE00 1.72 · #6aae2e
- Green SymphonyΔE00 1.92 · #66aa22
- Natural OrderΔE00 1.966 · #77b033
- StarburΔE00 2.099 · #6cb037
- Herbal LiftΔE00 2.192 · #6ba520
- ChristiΔE00 2.257 · #71a91d
- Festival GreenΔE00 2.339 · #6ea43c
- ParakeetΔE00 2.476 · #78ae48
- Green Gone WildΔE00 2.566 · #73a236
- Yule TreeΔE00 2.576 · #66b032
- Football FieldΔE00 2.606 · #7eaf34
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.