Dill

#6f7755

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

#6f7755

RGB

111, 119, 85

OKLCh

55.3% 0.051 118.9°

CIELAB (D50)

48.7, -7.8, 17.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 39% 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 72.8; on black, Lc -28.9. 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 13.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.72:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.45:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.72:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#6f7755

protanopia

#767655 · ΔE00 3.5

deuteranopia

#757555 · ΔE00 3.6

tritanopia

#737372 · ΔE00 13.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKariyasu Green at ΔE00 1.332: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Kariyasu GreenΔE00 1.332 · #6e7955
  • Ranger StationΔE00 1.352 · #707651
  • Loden GreenΔE00 1.63 · #747a59
  • Four Seasons OolongΔE00 2.01 · #6a7252
  • Egyptian NileΔE00 2.255 · #70775c
  • Variegated FrondΔE00 2.316 · #747d5a
  • Dark SageΔE00 2.376 · #6d765b
  • Herb CornucopiaΔE00 2.468 · #6e7357
  • FinchΔE00 2.578 · #75785a
  • Secret MeadowΔE00 2.608 · #72754f
  • Aceituna PicanteΔE00 2.649 · #727a5f
  • Lush HostaΔE00 2.873 · #6c765c

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.