Serrano Pepper
#556600
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#556600
RGB
85, 102, 0
OKLCh
47.9% 0.114 120.4°
CIELAB (D50)
40.5, -16.0, 45.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.6; on black, Lc -20.3. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 5.2 and 27.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.29:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#556600
protanopia
#646400 · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#616103 · ΔE00 5.2
tritanopia
#5e5e64 · ΔE00 27.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForestial Outpost at ΔE00 1.533: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Forestial OutpostΔE00 1.533 · #556611
- Mud GreenΔE00 3.359 · #606602
- Camouflage GreenΔE00 3.896 · #4b6113
- Kirchner GreenΔE00 3.982 · #5c6116
- Over the HillsΔE00 4.173 · #4d6d08
- Bowser ShellΔE00 4.179 · #536b1f
- GreensboroΔE00 4.24 · #565c00
- Fiji GreenΔE00 4.458 · #636f22
- Kyuri GreenΔE00 4.824 · #4b5d16
- Tabbouleh GreenΔE00 5.051 · #526525
- Fern FrondΔE00 5.077 · #657220
- Earthy Khaki GreenΔE00 5.385 · #666600
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.