Beat Around the Bush
#6e6a44
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
#6e6a44
RGB
110, 106, 68
OKLCh
51.8% 0.055 103.0°
CIELAB (D50)
44.5, -3.0, 21.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.5; on black, Lc -24.2. 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 6.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.51:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.81:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.51:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e6a44
protanopia
#6a6a44 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#6b6b44 · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#6c6c29 · ΔE00 6.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFossil Green at ΔE00 0.956: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fossil GreenΔE00 0.956 · #6c6a43
- MayflyΔE00 1.704 · #696841
- Portsmouth OliveΔE00 1.804 · #6b6b44
- Eat Your GreensΔE00 1.889 · #696845
- Swinging VineΔE00 1.891 · #706842
- Capulet OliveΔE00 1.923 · #6e6d4a
- Trough ShellΔE00 2.19 · #726d40
- Ocean WeedΔE00 2.222 · #6c6541
- RobinhoodΔE00 2.363 · #6e6a3b
- TrimΔE00 2.39 · #756d44
- Jungle CivilizationΔE00 2.483 · #69673a
- Amazon JungleΔE00 2.584 · #686747
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.