Jungle King
#4f4d32
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4f4d32
RGB
79, 77, 50
OKLCh
41.5% 0.042 104.5°
CIELAB (D50)
32.4, -2.7, 16.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.6; on black, Lc -12.7. 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
8.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.44:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f4d32
protanopia
#4d4d32 · ΔE00 1.1
deuteranopia
#4e4e32 · ΔE00 1.1
tritanopia
#4e4e27 · ΔE00 3.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmber Shade Wash at ΔE00 1.146: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Umber Shade WashΔE00 1.146 · #4e4d2f
- Tinny TinΔE00 1.428 · #4b492d
- Olive LeafΔE00 1.977 · #4e4b35
- Avocado PearΔE00 2.064 · #555337
- Warplock BronzeΔE00 2.219 · #515131
- WaiouruΔE00 2.235 · #4c4e31
- Thatch GreenΔE00 2.352 · #544e31
- Tin BitzΔE00 2.693 · #48452b
- Bronze IconΔE00 2.899 · #585538
- Batu CaveΔE00 3.081 · #595438
- Danger RidgeΔE00 3.086 · #595539
- PandaΔE00 3.11 · #544f3a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.