Cypress
#585d40
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
#585d40
RGB
88, 93, 64
OKLCh
46.6% 0.045 116.1°
CIELAB (D50)
38.4, -6.1, 16.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.8; on black, Lc -18.2. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.05:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#585d40
protanopia
#5c5c40 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#5c5c40 · ΔE00 2.5
tritanopia
#5b5b53 · ΔE00 9.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTank at ΔE00 1.668: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- TankΔE00 1.668 · #5c6141
- Base CampΔE00 1.676 · #575c3a
- Lovers PineΔE00 1.729 · #5a6141
- Tree of LifeΔE00 1.776 · #595d45
- Blue Black CrayfishΔE00 1.858 · #52593b
- DeliciousΔE00 1.908 · #585e46
- Down-to-EarthΔE00 1.934 · #5c6242
- PinetopΔE00 2.061 · #57593f
- Boughs of PineΔE00 2.587 · #576145
- Dark RainforestΔE00 2.603 · #505838
- Forest RidgeΔE00 2.682 · #555d46
- Lone PineΔE00 2.688 · #575a44
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.