Dill
#6f7755
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
#6f7755
RGB
111, 119, 85
OKLCh
55.3% 0.051 118.9°
CIELAB (D50)
48.7, -7.8, 17.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.8; on black, Lc -28.9. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.45:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6f7755
protanopia
#767655 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#757555 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#737372 · ΔE00 13.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKariyasu Green at ΔE00 1.332: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Kariyasu GreenΔE00 1.332 · #6e7955
- Ranger StationΔE00 1.352 · #707651
- Loden GreenΔE00 1.63 · #747a59
- Four Seasons OolongΔE00 2.01 · #6a7252
- Egyptian NileΔE00 2.255 · #70775c
- Variegated FrondΔE00 2.316 · #747d5a
- Dark SageΔE00 2.376 · #6d765b
- Herb CornucopiaΔE00 2.468 · #6e7357
- FinchΔE00 2.578 · #75785a
- Secret MeadowΔE00 2.608 · #72754f
- Aceituna PicanteΔE00 2.649 · #727a5f
- Lush HostaΔE00 2.873 · #6c765c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.