Tree Hugger
#79774a
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
#79774a
RGB
121, 119, 74
OKLCh
56.0% 0.064 106.1°
CIELAB (D50)
49.4, -4.6, 25.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.0; on black, Lc -29.6. 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
4.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.55:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#79774a
protanopia
#77774a · ΔE00 0.8
deuteranopia
#78784a · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#78783e · ΔE00 3.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGunmetal Green at ΔE00 0.676: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Gunmetal GreenΔE00 0.676 · #777648
- Fern ShadeΔE00 1.536 · #797447
- Fresh CilantroΔE00 1.931 · #74754c
- Ancient BonsaiΔE00 2.269 · #73754c
- Verdant ViewsΔE00 2.334 · #75794a
- Greek OreganoΔE00 2.336 · #7c754c
- Steel Legion DrabΔE00 2.408 · #7a744d
- Tara’s DrapesΔE00 2.459 · #767a49
- Seaweed SaladΔE00 2.562 · #7d7b55
- Green Woodpecker OliveΔE00 2.621 · #7d7853
- Vineyard ViewΔE00 2.626 · #777146
- Plant GreenΔE00 2.723 · #777a44
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.