Tree of Life
#595d45
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
#595d45
RGB
89, 93, 69
OKLCh
46.8% 0.037 115.6°
CIELAB (D50)
38.6, -5.1, 13.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.6; on black, Lc -18.4. 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 7.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.08:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#595d45
protanopia
#5d5d45 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#5c5c45 · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#5b5b54 · ΔE00 7.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDelicious at ΔE00 1.015: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- DeliciousΔE00 1.015 · #585e46
- Lone PineΔE00 1.279 · #575a44
- CypressΔE00 1.776 · #585d40
- Old Botanical GardenΔE00 1.812 · #5e624a
- Fresh BasilΔE00 1.82 · #5c5f4b
- PinetopΔE00 1.858 · #57593f
- River ForestΔE00 1.934 · #545b45
- Forest RidgeΔE00 2.042 · #555d46
- Almond GreenΔE00 2.434 · #595e4c
- Grape LeavesΔE00 2.577 · #576049
- Rookwood Dark GreenΔE00 2.6 · #565c4a
- TankΔE00 2.925 · #5c6141
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.