Bay Leaf
#86793d
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#86793d
RGB
134, 121, 61
OKLCh
57.5% 0.082 97.4°
CIELAB (D50)
51.0, -0.9, 34.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.2; on black, Lc -31.5. 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 8.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.36:1 — large text only
Black text
4.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#84773b 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
#86793d
protanopia
#7b7b3d · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#7d7d3c · ΔE00 4.6
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 8.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCapers at ΔE00 0.906: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CapersΔE00 0.906 · #897a3e
- Baikō BrownΔE00 1.175 · #887938
- Marsh GrassΔE00 1.405 · #82763d
- Caper GreenΔE00 1.674 · #847640
- Jumping JuniperΔE00 2.047 · #887636
- Dragon WellΔE00 2.05 · #877732
- Koke MossΔE00 2.06 · #8b7d3a
- Trellis ClimberΔE00 2.165 · #7f753c
- Swamp MudΔE00 2.193 · #857947
- Tropical TwistΔE00 2.198 · #837946
- Giant Cactus GreenΔE00 2.282 · #88763f
- Spanish BistreΔE00 2.39 · #807532
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.