Reptile Revenge
#5e582b
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
#5e582b
RGB
94, 88, 43
OKLCh
45.5% 0.065 101.8°
CIELAB (D50)
37.2, -2.5, 26.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.1; on black, Lc -17.0. 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 7.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5e582b
protanopia
#59592b · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#5a5a2b · ΔE00 2.5
tritanopia
#5b5b00 · ΔE00 7.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTucumán Green at ΔE00 0.919: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tucumán GreenΔE00 0.919 · #5f572b
- Costa Del SolΔE00 2.157 · #625d2a
- SaguaroΔE00 2.681 · #655f2d
- High Forest GreenΔE00 3.293 · #665d25
- Fir GreenΔE00 3.478 · #67592a
- Bean GreenΔE00 3.479 · #685c27
- Basque GreenΔE00 3.781 · #5f6033
- Gardener GreenΔE00 4.198 · #5e602a
- MazeΔE00 4.241 · #5c5638
- West CoastΔE00 4.337 · #5c512f
- Beach CasuarinaΔE00 4.438 · #665a38
- Verdigris FoncéΔE00 4.548 · #62603e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.