Himalaya

#736330

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

#736330

RGB

115, 99, 48

OKLCh

50.4% 0.073 92.2°

CIELAB (D50)

42.7, 1.5, 31.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.5; on black, Lc -22.3. 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 6.3 and 6.3 and 9.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.90:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.56:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.90:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#736330

protanopia

#656530 · ΔE00 6.3

deuteranopia

#68682f · ΔE00 6.3

tritanopia

#6b6b00 · ΔE00 9.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRationality at ΔE00 2.59: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

  • RationalityΔE00 2.59 · #6f6138
  • MorassΔE00 2.626 · #726138
  • Racoon EyesΔE00 2.947 · #776a3c
  • NutriaΔE00 2.992 · #75663e
  • Sphagnum MossΔE00 3.012 · #75693d
  • Brassy BrassΔE00 3.235 · #776022
  • Gold SparkleΔE00 3.277 · #786b3d
  • Bean GreenΔE00 3.31 · #685c27
  • Yellow MetalΔE00 3.615 · #73633e
  • Brazen BrassΔE00 3.674 · #7b6623
  • Twig BasketΔE00 3.716 · #77623a
  • MusketΔE00 3.785 · #7d6d39

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