Grasshopper
#77824a
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
#77824a
RGB
119, 130, 74
OKLCh
58.4% 0.080 118.0°
CIELAB (D50)
52.4, -11.2, 28.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.4; on black, Lc -33.2. 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 16.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.14:1 — large text only
Black text
5.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717c44 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#77824a
protanopia
#81814a · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#7f7f4a · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#7d7d77 · ΔE00 16.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Artichoke at ΔE00 1.87: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh ArtichokeΔE00 1.87 · #7c8447
- Old Four Leaf CloverΔE00 2.112 · #757d43
- Turf WarΔE00 2.325 · #738050
- Creamed AvocadoΔE00 2.476 · #70804d
- Calliste GreenΔE00 2.477 · #798052
- Field MapleΔE00 2.711 · #80884e
- Rockwall VineΔE00 2.766 · #6d7e42
- Quartz GreenΔE00 2.767 · #6e7c45
- Hot Dog RelishΔE00 2.792 · #717c3e
- Moss LandingΔE00 2.872 · #6d7e40
- OreganoΔE00 2.909 · #7f8353
- Thai BasilΔE00 3.019 · #7a7f3f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.