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#404404
A yellow that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#404404
RGB
64, 68, 4
OKLCh
37.1% 0.080 113.5°
CIELAB (D50)
27.6, -8.0, 33.9
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 uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.7; on black, Lc -8.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.05:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#404404
protanopia
#444404 · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#434304 · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#424228 · ΔE00 8.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlligator Gladiator at ΔE00 2.384: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Alligator GladiatorΔE00 2.384 · #444411
- Dark OliveΔE00 2.569 · #373e02
- No Emissions GreenΔE00 3.512 · #404c02
- Garden ShadowΔE00 4.467 · #334400
- GodzillaΔE00 4.776 · #3c4d03
- Private GreenΔE00 5.457 · #4f531f
- Verdun GreenΔE00 5.487 · #48531a
- CamouflageΔE00 5.632 · #3c3910
- Army GreenΔE00 5.696 · #4b5320
- Scorzonera BrownΔE00 5.8 · #544e03
- Wasabi NoriΔE00 5.838 · #333300
- Nori Seaweed GreenΔE00 6.527 · #464826
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.