Avocado Stone
#4e3e1f
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4e3e1f
RGB
78, 62, 31
OKLCh
37.3% 0.051 82.6°
CIELAB (D50)
27.4, 4.0, 21.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.9; on black, Lc -8.6. 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 8.6 and 8.6 and 10.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.03:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e3e1f
protanopia
#40401f · ΔE00 8.6
deuteranopia
#43431e · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#464600 · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClove Yellow Brown at ΔE00 1.665: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Clove Yellow BrownΔE00 1.665 · #523f21
- MadrasΔE00 3.738 · #473e23
- NightingaleΔE00 3.95 · #5c4827
- Witch’s CottageΔE00 3.993 · #4c3d29
- Smoked Oak BrownΔE00 4.003 · #573f16
- Garden LoamΔE00 4.011 · #55422b
- Deep BronzeΔE00 4.308 · #51412d
- Beech BrownΔE00 4.335 · #574128
- Lisbon BrownΔE00 4.425 · #423921
- LoamΔE00 4.84 · #443724
- PungaΔE00 5.008 · #534931
- Hóng Zōng BrownΔE00 5.033 · #564a33
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.