Ivy Topiary
#67614f
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
#67614f
RGB
103, 97, 79
OKLCh
49.3% 0.029 91.8°
CIELAB (D50)
41.3, 0.0, 11.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 80.8; on black, Lc -21.0. 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 10.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.18:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.40:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.18:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#67614f
protanopia
#62624f · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#63634f · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#646430 · ΔE00 10.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTwisted Vine at ΔE00 1.437: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Twisted VineΔE00 1.437 · #655f50
- Shady GreenΔE00 1.493 · #635d4c
- Boulder BrownΔE00 1.502 · #655e4e
- KalamataΔE00 1.729 · #6a6555
- Slick GreenΔE00 1.975 · #615d4c
- Shaker GreyΔE00 2.261 · #6c6556
- Bronze FigΔE00 2.333 · #6e6654
- Rikyūnezumi BrownΔE00 2.532 · #656255
- Bull KelpΔE00 2.678 · #636153
- LemurΔE00 2.737 · #695f4f
- PrimitiveΔE00 2.813 · #685e4e
- Green FatigueΔE00 2.824 · #605e4f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.