Black Forest
#5e6354
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5e6354
RGB
94, 99, 84
OKLCh
49.1% 0.024 122.3°
CIELAB (D50)
41.2, -4.3, 7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 20% 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 80.9; on black, Lc -20.9. 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 10.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.39:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5e6354
protanopia
#626254 · ΔE00 2.8
deuteranopia
#626254 · ΔE00 2.9
tritanopia
#616164 · ΔE00 10.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPalo Verde at ΔE00 1.028: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Palo VerdeΔE00 1.028 · #5f6356
- Sweet ToothΔE00 1.384 · #5f6255
- Amazon FoliageΔE00 1.403 · #606553
- Pine Cone PassΔE00 1.583 · #5c6456
- Willow Sooty BambooΔE00 1.771 · #5b6356
- Soft OliveΔE00 1.85 · #59604f
- WoohringaΔE00 2.017 · #5f655a
- Strong OliveΔE00 2.088 · #646756
- English ForestΔE00 2.102 · #606256
- Nottingham ForestΔE00 2.182 · #585d4e
- Winning TicketΔE00 2.279 · #636653
- Almond GreenΔE00 2.29 · #595e4c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.