Four Leaf Clover
#738f5d
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#738f5d
RGB
115, 143, 93
OKLCh
61.5% 0.079 132.1°
CIELAB (D50)
56.3, -17.4, 23.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.7; on black, Lc -38.0. 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 8.8 and 8.9 and 35.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.61:1 — large text only
Black text
5.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#637f4e 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
#738f5d
protanopia
#8c8c5d · ΔE00 8.8
deuteranopia
#88885e · ΔE00 8.9
tritanopia
#8282ad · ΔE00 35.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBland Celery at ΔE00 0.697: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bland CeleryΔE00 0.697 · #74915f
- Old BambooΔE00 1.541 · #769164
- Lush HighlandsΔE00 1.982 · #7a9461
- Van Gogh OlivesΔE00 2.077 · #759465
- Moss GardensΔE00 2.165 · #768b59
- Piquant GreenΔE00 2.403 · #769358
- Mixed VeggiesΔE00 2.496 · #719166
- Vegetarian VeteranΔE00 2.516 · #78945a
- Fern CanopyΔE00 2.518 · #758a5f
- VillandryΔE00 2.528 · #728f66
- Irish CharmΔE00 2.532 · #69905b
- Moss RingΔE00 2.682 · #729067
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.