Lizard
#7b6943
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
#7b6943
RGB
123, 105, 67
OKLCh
52.9% 0.059 85.1°
CIELAB (D50)
45.5, 3.3, 24.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 76.5; on black, Lc -25.3. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.1 and 8.1 and 13.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.94:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7b6943
protanopia
#6b6b43 · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#6f6f42 · ΔE00 8.1
tritanopia
#727200 · ΔE00 13.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMiddle Ditch at ΔE00 0.45: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Middle DitchΔE00 0.45 · #7c6942
- Eminent BronzeΔE00 0.496 · #7a6841
- Mud BathΔE00 0.847 · #7c6841
- Cork BarkΔE00 1.022 · #7e6b43
- Mossy ShadeΔE00 1.256 · #7e6c44
- Shaded FernΔE00 1.561 · #786947
- Juicy FigΔE00 1.651 · #7d6c4a
- Lizard LegsΔE00 1.812 · #7f6944
- NutriaΔE00 2.078 · #75663e
- Amazon GreenΔE00 2.231 · #786a4a
- Blue Cheese OliveΔE00 2.276 · #80693d
- Rawhide CanoeΔE00 2.367 · #7a643f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.