Pesto di Rucola
#748a35
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#748a35
RGB
116, 138, 53
OKLCh
59.8% 0.114 122.2°
CIELAB (D50)
54.4, -18.0, 41.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.1; on black, Lc -35.6. 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 6.2 and 32.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.87:1 — large text only
Black text
5.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#697f29 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#748a35
protanopia
#888835 · ΔE00 6.3
deuteranopia
#848436 · ΔE00 6.2
tritanopia
#80808f · ΔE00 32.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKhaki Green at ΔE00 1.779: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Khaki GreenΔE00 1.779 · #728639
- Sassy GrassΔE00 1.902 · #7a8c31
- Komatsuna GreenΔE00 2.244 · #7b8d42
- Fresh HerbΔE00 2.446 · #77913b
- Olive ThrillΔE00 2.673 · #6d8e2c
- Italian BuckthornΔE00 2.978 · #6b8c23
- LairdΔE00 3.012 · #79853c
- Pepper SproutΔE00 3.169 · #7e9242
- Sacred SaplingΔE00 3.246 · #7c8635
- Sun ValleyΔE00 3.282 · #698538
- Absinthe DreamsΔE00 3.329 · #7f8b30
- ScallionΔE00 3.376 · #6b8e23
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.