Jungle Civilization
#69673a
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
#69673a
RGB
105, 103, 58
OKLCh
50.4% 0.065 106.3°
CIELAB (D50)
42.9, -4.5, 25.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.1; on black, Lc -22.7. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
5.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.60:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#69673a
protanopia
#67673a · ΔE00 0.8
deuteranopia
#68683a · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#68682c · ΔE00 3.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRobinhood at ΔE00 1.58: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- RobinhoodΔE00 1.58 · #6e6a3b
- MayflyΔE00 1.733 · #696841
- Fossil GreenΔE00 2.032 · #6c6a43
- Portsmouth OliveΔE00 2.393 · #6b6b44
- Beat Around the BushΔE00 2.483 · #6e6a44
- Trough ShellΔE00 2.793 · #726d40
- Eat Your GreensΔE00 2.845 · #696845
- Basque GreenΔE00 3.048 · #5f6033
- Jungle TrailΔE00 3.17 · #6d6f42
- Glossy OliveΔE00 3.244 · #636340
- Ocean WeedΔE00 3.276 · #6c6541
- Swinging VineΔE00 3.349 · #706842
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.