Nearest-color comparison

Epoxy Green vs Hookers Green

Epoxy Green and Hookers Green are different green colors with HEX values #4E8A57 and #49796B. According to Colors Encyclopedia, their RGB distance is 26.7, their contrast ratio is 1.2:1, and the comparison helps choose between tone, temperature, and accessibility behavior.

Epoxy Green and Hookers Green are visually related colors. Epoxy Green is the lighter option. They share similar temperature behavior. Their mutual contrast is 1.2:1, so the pair is too low for text and better treated as a palette relationship.

Differences Use cases Accessibility JSON

Epoxy Green#4E8A57

Hookers Green#49796B

Quick Difference Summary

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

RGB distance26.7

Pair contrast1.2:1

Luminance delta0.0433

Hue delta34 deg

Lighter colorEpoxy Green

More saturatedEpoxy Green

Side-by-Side Color Profiles

green color

Epoxy Green

Epoxy Green is #4E8A57, a cool green color with muted and earth tone character. Compared with Hookers Green, it is lighter and more saturated. Use it for industrial design, safety systems, and hardware palettes, with black text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#4E8A57 RGB78, 138, 87 HSL129, 28, 42 CMYK43, 0, 37, 46 Luminance0.2048 Best textblack text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

green color

Hookers Green

Hookers Green is #49796B, a cool green color with muted and earth tone character. Compared with Epoxy Green, it is darker and less saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with white text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#49796B RGB73, 121, 107 HSL163, 25, 38 CMYK40, 0, 12, 53 Luminance0.1615 Best textwhite text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

When to Use Epoxy Green or Hookers Green

Choose Epoxy GreenEpoxy Green is better when the design needs muted and earth tone green character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #4E8A57.

Choose Hookers GreenHookers Green is better when the design needs muted and earth tone green character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #49796B.

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

Technical Comparison Table

PropertyEpoxy GreenHookers Green

HEX#4E8A57#49796B

RGB78, 138, 8773, 121, 107

HSL129, 28, 42163, 25, 38

CMYK43, 0, 37, 4640, 0, 12, 53

FamilyGreenGreen

TemperatureCoolCool

ToneMuted, Earth ToneMuted, Earth Tone

Luminance0.20480.1615

Black contrast5.1:14.23:1

White contrast4.12:14.96:1

Shared tonesMuted, Earth Tone

Accessibility and Contrast

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

Epoxy Greenblack text - 5.1:1

Hookers Greenwhite text - 4.96:1

Related Palette Strip

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

Epoxy Green#4E8A57

Hookers Green#49796B

#7CB685#7CB685

#73AB9B#73AB9B

#894D80#894D80

#794956#794956

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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    },
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      73,
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      "muted",
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    ],
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    "bestText": {
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      "label": "white text",
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    },
    "description": "Hookers Green is #49796B, a cool green color with muted and earth tone character. Compared with Epoxy Green, it is darker and less saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with white text as the safer foreground option.",
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Differences

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  "contrastRatio": 1.2,
  "hslDelta": {
    "hue": 34,
    "saturation": 3,
    "lightness": 4
  },
  "luminanceDelta": 0.0433,
  "sameFamily": true,
  "sameTemperature": true,
  "sharedTones": [
    "muted",
    "earth-tone"
  ],
  "lighterColor": "Epoxy Green",
  "moreSaturatedColor": "Epoxy Green"
}

Accessibility

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  "pairContrastRatio": 1.2,
  "textRecommendation": "Do not use this pair for text; use it for neighboring palette colors, decoration, or low-emphasis surfaces.",
  "safeText": [
    {
      "color": "Epoxy Green",
      "background": "#4E8A57",
      "foreground": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 5.1
    },
    {
      "color": "Hookers Green",
      "background": "#49796B",
      "foreground": "#FFFFFF",
      "label": "white text",
      "ratio": 4.96
    }
  ]
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Use cases

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  "chooseSecondWhen": "Hookers Green is better when the design needs muted and earth tone green character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #49796B.",
  "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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Full JSON dataset

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