Olivary
#6e592c
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
#6e592c
RGB
110, 89, 44
OKLCh
47.5% 0.068 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
39.2, 4.6, 29.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.0; on black, Lc -18.9. 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 8.7 and 8.7 and 11.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e592c
protanopia
#5c5c2c · ΔE00 8.7
deuteranopia
#60602b · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#646400 · ΔE00 11.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMoss Brown at ΔE00 0.882: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Moss BrownΔE00 0.882 · #715b2e
- Horses NeckΔE00 1.523 · #6d562c
- Florentine DreamΔE00 2.381 · #755c32
- Field DrabΔE00 2.683 · #6c541e
- Fir GreenΔE00 2.991 · #67592a
- MorassΔE00 3.197 · #726138
- Bali BatikΔE00 3.255 · #6f5937
- Uguisu BrownΔE00 3.405 · #645530
- BulrushΔE00 3.429 · #6d5837
- Twig BasketΔE00 3.62 · #77623a
- BreenΔE00 3.737 · #795d34
- RationalityΔE00 3.786 · #6f6138
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.