Bonsai
#787b54
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
#787b54
RGB
120, 123, 84
OKLCh
57.0% 0.056 111.8°
CIELAB (D50)
50.6, -6.2, 21.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.6; on black, Lc -31.1. 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
4.41:1 — large text only
Black text
4.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777a53 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
#787b54
protanopia
#7b7b54 · ΔE00 1.3
deuteranopia
#7a7a54 · ΔE00 1.3
tritanopia
#7a7a61 · ΔE00 4.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTambo Tank at ΔE00 1.306: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tambo TankΔE00 1.306 · #7c7d57
- FrondΔE00 1.571 · #7b7f56
- Grape VineΔE00 1.988 · #797f5a
- Seaweed SaladΔE00 2.194 · #7d7b55
- Verdant ViewsΔE00 2.352 · #75794a
- Loden GreenΔE00 2.356 · #747a59
- Secret MeadowΔE00 2.371 · #72754f
- MosstoneΔE00 2.379 · #7f805b
- Ancient BonsaiΔE00 2.458 · #73754c
- Fresh CilantroΔE00 2.496 · #74754c
- Ranger StationΔE00 2.616 · #707651
- Calliste GreenΔE00 2.659 · #798052
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.