Monstera
#5f674b
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
#5f674b
RGB
95, 103, 75
OKLCh
49.9% 0.044 120.9°
CIELAB (D50)
42.3, -7.2, 14.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 79.8; on black, Lc -22.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 15.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.53:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5f674b
protanopia
#66664b · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#65654b · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#636366 · ΔE00 15.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRosemary Sprig at ΔE00 1.873: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rosemary SprigΔE00 1.873 · #626a52
- Olympia IvyΔE00 1.979 · #5a6647
- HinterlandΔE00 2.172 · #616c51
- WoodlandΔE00 2.251 · #626746
- Down-to-EarthΔE00 2.474 · #5c6242
- Boughs of PineΔE00 2.517 · #576145
- Sea FernΔE00 2.572 · #656d54
- Gretna GreenΔE00 2.614 · #596442
- Old Botanical GardenΔE00 2.642 · #5e624a
- Lovers PineΔE00 2.671 · #5a6141
- Oitake GreenΔE00 2.692 · #5e644f
- InlandΔE00 2.728 · #606b54
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.