Secret Path
#737054
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
#737054
RGB
115, 112, 84
OKLCh
54.0% 0.042 102.6°
CIELAB (D50)
46.9, -2.4, 16.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 74.8; on black, Lc -26.9. 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.
- 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
5.03:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.17:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.03:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#737054
protanopia
#707054 · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#717154 · ΔE00 1.6
tritanopia
#717145 · ΔE00 4.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurnt Olive at ΔE00 0.705: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Burnt OliveΔE00 0.705 · #736f54
- PrioryΔE00 1.66 · #756f54
- Secluded GreenΔE00 2.094 · #6f6d56
- Truly OliveΔE00 2.226 · #777250
- Green IlludeΔE00 2.376 · #6e6f56
- Positively PalmΔE00 2.412 · #76745d
- Spruce WoodsΔE00 2.464 · #6e6a51
- Gratefully GrassΔE00 2.648 · #71714e
- Mysterious MossΔE00 2.753 · #6f6a52
- Capulet OliveΔE00 2.855 · #6e6d4a
- Outdoor OasisΔE00 2.872 · #6e6f4d
- Olive GroveΔE00 2.908 · #716a4d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.