Boa
#7f7755
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
#7f7755
RGB
127, 119, 85
OKLCh
56.8% 0.050 96.5°
CIELAB (D50)
50.1, -0.9, 19.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.2; on black, Lc -30.5. 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 12.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.49:1 — large text only
Black text
4.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7755 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
#7f7755
protanopia
#787855 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#797955 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#7b7b15 · ΔE00 12.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCabbage Green at ΔE00 1.534: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cabbage GreenΔE00 1.534 · #807553
- Olive to the MaxΔE00 1.538 · #7e7957
- MeadowlandΔE00 1.648 · #807a55
- Olive SaplingΔE00 1.715 · #7f7452
- Green Woodpecker OliveΔE00 1.729 · #7d7853
- Dried HerbΔE00 1.735 · #847a59
- Private AffairΔE00 1.74 · #807658
- Chocolate VelvetΔE00 1.783 · #7f7453
- Olive OchreΔE00 1.946 · #837752
- Pesto GreenΔE00 1.963 · #817553
- Fern GroveΔE00 2.238 · #837b53
- Autumn GroveΔE00 2.267 · #827b53
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.