Herbal Whispers
#6b6d4e
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
#6b6d4e
RGB
107, 109, 78
OKLCh
52.4% 0.046 111.0°
CIELAB (D50)
45.2, -4.9, 17.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.7; on black, Lc -25.1. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
5.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.92:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b6d4e
protanopia
#6d6d4e · ΔE00 1.0
deuteranopia
#6c6c4e · ΔE00 1.0
tritanopia
#6c6c56 · ΔE00 3.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isToy Tank Green at ΔE00 0.807: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Toy Tank GreenΔE00 0.807 · #6d6f4f
- Outdoor OasisΔE00 1.317 · #6e6f4d
- SiamΔE00 1.606 · #686b50
- Global GreenΔE00 1.618 · #696e51
- Capulet OliveΔE00 1.93 · #6e6d4a
- BanchaΔE00 2.034 · #666a47
- Gratefully GrassΔE00 2.257 · #71714e
- HemlockΔE00 2.265 · #69684b
- Green IlludeΔE00 2.286 · #6e6f56
- Amazon JungleΔE00 2.556 · #686747
- Eat Your GreensΔE00 2.622 · #696845
- Portsmouth OliveΔE00 2.739 · #6b6b44
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.