HueComb

Wasabi Nori

#333300

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.

Hex

#333300

RGB

51, 51, 0

OKLCh

31.1% 0.068 109.8°

CIELAB (D50)

20.5, -5.1, 28.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.1; on black, Lc 0.0. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

13.01:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.61:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at13.01:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#333300

protanopia

#333300 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#333300 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#333300 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCamouflage at ΔE00 2.976: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.