Eat Your Greens
#696845
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
#696845
RGB
105, 104, 69
OKLCh
50.9% 0.052 106.7°
CIELAB (D50)
43.4, -4.1, 19.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.6; on black, Lc -23.1. 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
5.73:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.67:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.73:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#696845
protanopia
#686845 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#686845 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#686840 · ΔE00 1.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmazon Jungle at ΔE00 0.957: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Amazon JungleΔE00 0.957 · #686747
- MayflyΔE00 1.151 · #696841
- Cedar GlenΔE00 1.427 · #686647
- Fossil GreenΔE00 1.449 · #6c6a43
- Portsmouth OliveΔE00 1.538 · #6b6b44
- HemlockΔE00 1.874 · #69684b
- Beat Around the BushΔE00 1.889 · #6e6a44
- Capulet OliveΔE00 1.901 · #6e6d4a
- Glossy OliveΔE00 1.991 · #636340
- BanchaΔE00 2.322 · #666a47
- Wood’s CreekΔE00 2.531 · #61633f
- Herbal WhispersΔE00 2.622 · #6b6d4e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.