HueComb

Bavarian Green

#749a54

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

Hex

#749a54

RGB

116, 154, 84

OKLCh

64.1% 0.106 132.1°

CIELAB (D50)

59.5, -23.1, 32.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.5; on black, Lc -42.2. 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 10.3 and 10.1 and 43.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.23:1 — large text only

Black text

6.49:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.49:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5c813c 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

#749a54

protanopia

#969654 · ΔE00 10.3

deuteranopia

#909056 · ΔE00 10.1

tritanopia

#8989c1 · ΔE00 43.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMeadow Green at ΔE00 0.887: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.