Nearest-color comparison

Avocado vs Scheele Green

Avocado and Scheele Green are different green colors with HEX values #568203 and #478800. According to Colors Encyclopedia, their RGB distance is 16.4, their contrast ratio is 1.04:1, and the comparison helps choose between tone, temperature, and accessibility behavior.

Avocado and Scheele Green are very close colors. Scheele Green is the lighter option. They share similar temperature behavior. Their mutual contrast is 1.04:1, so the pair is too low for text and better treated as a palette relationship.

Differences Use cases Accessibility JSON

Avocado#568203

Scheele Green#478800

Quick Difference Summary

The main measurable differences between Avocado and Scheele Green across RGB distance, luminance, hue, saturation, and contrast.

RGB distance16.4

Pair contrast1.04:1

Luminance delta0.01

Hue delta8 deg

Lighter colorScheele Green

More saturatedScheele Green

Side-by-Side Color Profiles

green color

Avocado

Avocado is #568203, a cool green color with jewel tone character. Compared with Scheele Green, it is darker and less saturated. Use it for natural palettes, wellness branding, and sustainability design, with black text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#568203 RGB86, 130, 3 HSL81, 95, 26 CMYK34, 0, 98, 49 Luminance0.1795 Best textblack text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

green color

Scheele Green

Scheele Green is #478800, a cool green color with jewel tone character. Compared with Avocado, it is lighter and more saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with black text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#478800 RGB71, 136, 0 HSL89, 100, 27 CMYK48, 0, 100, 47 Luminance0.1895 Best textblack text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

When to Use Avocado or Scheele Green

Choose AvocadoAvocado is better when the design needs jewel tone green character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #568203.

Choose Scheele GreenScheele Green is better when the design needs jewel tone green character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #478800.

Use togetherUse these colors together as related palette neighbors, subtle material differences, or tonal alternatives rather than readable foreground/background pairs.

Technical Comparison Table

PropertyAvocadoScheele Green

HEX#568203#478800

RGB86, 130, 371, 136, 0

HSL81, 95, 2689, 100, 27

CMYK34, 0, 98, 4948, 0, 100, 47

FamilyGreenGreen

TemperatureCoolCool

ToneJewel ToneJewel Tone

Luminance0.17950.1895

Black contrast4.59:14.79:1

White contrast4.58:14.38:1

Shared tonesJewel Tone

Accessibility and Contrast

Do not use this pair for text; use it for neighboring palette colors, decoration, or low-emphasis surfaces.

Avocadoblack text - 4.59:1

Scheele Greenblack text - 4.79:1

Related Palette Strip

A compact visual strip showing the two compared colors with nearby harmony and variant context.

Avocado#568203

Scheele Green#478800

#90DB06#90DB06

#77E600#77E600

#2F0381#2F0381

#43008A#43008A

colorsBoth named color records with HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, luminance, WCAG, and links

differencesRGB distance, HSL deltas, luminance delta, contrast, and shared attributes

accessibilityPair contrast and safer text choices for each color

useCasesWhen to choose each color and when to use them together

relatedApiMachine-readable comparison and color endpoints

Structured sections

Colors

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      26
    ],
    "cmyk": [
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      49
    ],
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    "temperature": "cool",
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    },
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    },
    "bestText": {
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      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 4.59
    },
    "description": "Avocado is #568203, a cool green color with jewel tone character. Compared with Scheele Green, it is darker and less saturated. Use it for natural palettes, wellness branding, and sustainability design, with black text as the safer foreground option.",
    "url": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/colors/avocado/",
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  },
  {
    "slug": "scheeles-green",
    "name": "Scheele Green",
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    "rgb": [
      71,
      136,
      0
    ],
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      100,
      27
    ],
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      48,
      0,
      100,
      47
    ],
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    "temperature": "cool",
    "tone": [
      "jewel-tone"
    ],
    "luminance": 0.1895,
    "contrast": {
      "black": 4.79,
      "white": 4.38
    },
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      "AAA": []
    },
    "bestText": {
      "text": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 4.79
    },
    "description": "Scheele Green is #478800, a cool green color with jewel tone character. Compared with Avocado, it is lighter and more saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with black text as the safer foreground option.",
    "url": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/colors/scheeles-green/",
    "apiUrl": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/scheeles-green.json"
  }
]

Differences

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  "rgbDistance": 16.4,
  "contrastRatio": 1.04,
  "hslDelta": {
    "hue": 8,
    "saturation": 5,
    "lightness": 1
  },
  "luminanceDelta": 0.01,
  "sameFamily": true,
  "sameTemperature": true,
  "sharedTones": [
    "jewel-tone"
  ],
  "lighterColor": "Scheele Green",
  "moreSaturatedColor": "Scheele Green"
}

Accessibility

{
  "pairContrastRatio": 1.04,
  "textRecommendation": "Do not use this pair for text; use it for neighboring palette colors, decoration, or low-emphasis surfaces.",
  "safeText": [
    {
      "color": "Avocado",
      "background": "#568203",
      "foreground": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 4.59
    },
    {
      "color": "Scheele Green",
      "background": "#478800",
      "foreground": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 4.79
    }
  ]
}

Use cases

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  "chooseFirstWhen": "Avocado is better when the design needs jewel tone green character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #568203.",
  "chooseSecondWhen": "Scheele Green is better when the design needs jewel tone green character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #478800.",
  "useTogetherWhen": "Use these colors together as related palette neighbors, subtle material differences, or tonal alternatives rather than readable foreground/background pairs."
}

Related API

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  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/compare/avocado-vs-scheeles-green.json",
  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/avocado.json",
  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/scheeles-green.json"
]

Full JSON dataset

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