Forestial Outpost
#556611
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#556611
RGB
85, 102, 17
OKLCh
48.0% 0.107 120.9°
CIELAB (D50)
40.5, -15.6, 41.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- 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 5.4 and 5.3 and 28.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.29:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#556611
protanopia
#646411 · ΔE00 5.4
deuteranopia
#616113 · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#5e5e66 · ΔE00 28.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSerrano Pepper 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.
- Serrano PepperΔE00 1.533 · #556600
- Camouflage GreenΔE00 2.885 · #4b6113
- Bowser ShellΔE00 2.99 · #536b1f
- Tabbouleh GreenΔE00 3.545 · #526525
- Kirchner GreenΔE00 3.695 · #5c6116
- Kyuri GreenΔE00 3.837 · #4b5d16
- Over the HillsΔE00 3.909 · #4d6d08
- Fiji GreenΔE00 3.984 · #636f22
- Mud GreenΔE00 4.058 · #606602
- Bimi GreenΔE00 4.358 · #54682b
- GreensboroΔE00 4.55 · #565c00
- Forest SpiritΔE00 4.836 · #667028
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.