Greek Oregano
#7c754c
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
#7c754c
RGB
124, 117, 76
OKLCh
55.8% 0.059 99.7°
CIELAB (D50)
49.1, -2.0, 23.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.4; on black, Lc -29.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.51:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7c754c
protanopia
#76764c · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#77774c · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#797903 · ΔE00 11.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSteel Legion Drab at ΔE00 0.808: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Steel Legion DrabΔE00 0.808 · #7a744d
- Fern ShadeΔE00 1.496 · #797447
- Green Woodpecker OliveΔE00 1.782 · #7d7853
- Vineyard ViewΔE00 1.842 · #777146
- Olive ShadeΔE00 1.923 · #7d7248
- Peppered MossΔE00 1.924 · #807548
- MeadowlandΔE00 2.311 · #807a55
- BoaΔE00 2.332 · #7f7755
- Tree HuggerΔE00 2.336 · #79774a
- Autumn GroveΔE00 2.412 · #827b53
- Truly OliveΔE00 2.44 · #777250
- Fern GroveΔE00 2.534 · #837b53
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.