HueComb

Alligator Gladiator

#444411

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

#444411

RGB

68, 68, 17

OKLCh

37.5% 0.070 109.4°

CIELAB (D50)

28.0, -5.5, 29.3

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 86% 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 93.4; on black, Lc -9.1. 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

10.09:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.08:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at10.09:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#444411

protanopia

#444411 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#444411 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#444411 · 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 isGreen Not Found at ΔE00 2.384: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. 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.