Verdant Leaf
#817c4a
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
#817c4a
RGB
129, 124, 74
OKLCh
57.9% 0.070 103.4°
CIELAB (D50)
51.6, -3.8, 28.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.5; on black, Lc -32.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.27:1 — large text only
Black text
4.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7846 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
#817c4a
protanopia
#7d7d4a · ΔE00 1.9
deuteranopia
#7d7d4a · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#7e7e20 · ΔE00 7.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTribal at ΔE00 1.625: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- TribalΔE00 1.625 · #807943
- TerrapinΔE00 1.769 · #807f4a
- Tropical TwistΔE00 2.072 · #837946
- XenaΔE00 2.279 · #847e54
- Green MossΔE00 2.362 · #887e48
- Steppe GreenΔE00 2.578 · #7d7640
- Candied LimeΔE00 2.601 · #838252
- Autumn GroveΔE00 2.659 · #827b53
- Aged EucalyptusΔE00 2.732 · #898253
- Tree HuggerΔE00 2.736 · #79774a
- Swamp MudΔE00 2.743 · #857947
- Army Issue GreenΔE00 2.794 · #838254
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.