Garden Weed
#786e38
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
#786e38
RGB
120, 110, 56
OKLCh
53.5% 0.075 99.0°
CIELAB (D50)
46.4, -1.7, 31.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.4; on black, Lc -26.3. 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 8.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.14:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.09:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.14:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#786e38
protanopia
#6f6f38 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#717137 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#737300 · ΔE00 8.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTuscan Hills at ΔE00 1.546: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tuscan HillsΔE00 1.546 · #746e38
- MusketΔE00 2.354 · #7d6d39
- Gold SparkleΔE00 2.388 · #786b3d
- Racoon EyesΔE00 2.538 · #776a3c
- Trellis ClimberΔE00 2.77 · #7f753c
- Trough ShellΔE00 2.951 · #726d40
- Sphagnum MossΔE00 2.983 · #75693d
- Time HonouredΔE00 3.018 · #7f6d37
- Italian OliveΔE00 3.077 · #807243
- Steppe GreenΔE00 3.107 · #7d7640
- Vineyard ViewΔE00 3.227 · #777146
- TrimΔE00 3.229 · #756d44
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.