Treasure Chest

#726854

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

#726854

RGB

114, 104, 84

OKLCh

52.1% 0.033 84.5°

CIELAB (D50)

44.5, 1.5, 12.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 31% 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 77.4; on black, Lc -24.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.8 and 6.0 and 16.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.49:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.82:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.49:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#726854

protanopia

#696954 · ΔE00 5.8

deuteranopia

#6b6b54 · ΔE00 6.0

tritanopia

#6d6d00 · ΔE00 16.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Tan at ΔE00 0.895: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Deep TanΔE00 0.895 · #726751
  • LandmarkΔE00 1.118 · #746854
  • Bronze FigΔE00 1.474 · #6e6654
  • AdventurerΔE00 1.511 · #72664f
  • Toasted WalnutΔE00 1.911 · #746a5a
  • IrrigationΔE00 1.973 · #786c57
  • Hip WadersΔE00 2.026 · #746a51
  • Sandwashed DriftwoodΔE00 2.094 · #706859
  • CraterΔE00 2.241 · #75674f
  • Classic BronzeΔE00 2.251 · #6d624e
  • Soya BeanΔE00 2.448 · #6f634b
  • HaroldΔE00 2.462 · #6d6353

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