Organic
#747261
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#747261
RGB
116, 114, 97
OKLCh
54.9% 0.026 101.7°
CIELAB (D50)
47.8, -1.6, 9.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% 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 73.7; on black, Lc -28.0. 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.
- 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
4.86:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.32:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.86:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#747261
protanopia
#727261 · ΔE00 1.1
deuteranopia
#737361 · ΔE00 1.2
tritanopia
#737359 · ΔE00 3.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalt Island Green at ΔE00 0.577: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Salt Island GreenΔE00 0.577 · #757261
- Sage Green LightΔE00 0.98 · #73705e
- Amazon RiverΔE00 1.07 · #777462
- PeppergrassΔE00 1.081 · #767461
- MangroveΔE00 1.204 · #757461
- Secret MissionΔE00 1.427 · #777465
- MomentumΔE00 2.029 · #746f5c
- King’s CourtΔE00 2.108 · #706d5e
- Pepper MillΔE00 2.139 · #777568
- Lazy LichenΔE00 2.153 · #6e6e5c
- Lapwing Grey GreenΔE00 2.248 · #7a7562
- Dull OliveΔE00 2.248 · #7a7564
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.