Bancha
#666a47
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
#666a47
RGB
102, 106, 71
OKLCh
51.1% 0.052 113.6°
CIELAB (D50)
43.8, -6.2, 19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.2; on black, Lc -23.5. 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 6.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.72:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#666a47
protanopia
#6a6a47 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#696947 · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#686858 · ΔE00 6.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHellebore at ΔE00 0.85: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HelleboreΔE00 0.85 · #646944
- Olive BranchΔE00 0.993 · #646a45
- WoodlandΔE00 1.4 · #626746
- Herbal WhispersΔE00 2.034 · #6b6d4e
- Coconut GroveΔE00 2.181 · #676d43
- Portsmouth OliveΔE00 2.293 · #6b6b44
- Eat Your GreensΔE00 2.322 · #696845
- Aloe LeafΔE00 2.347 · #61643f
- Toy Tank GreenΔE00 2.48 · #6d6f4f
- Amazon JungleΔE00 2.535 · #686747
- Gulf WeedΔE00 2.551 · #686e43
- Global GreenΔE00 2.563 · #696e51
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.