Iguana
#878757
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#878757
RGB
135, 135, 87
OKLCh
61.1% 0.067 108.2°
CIELAB (D50)
55.4, -5.8, 25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.8; on black, Lc -36.8. 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
3.73:1 — large text only
Black text
5.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#79794a 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
#878757
protanopia
#878757 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#878757 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#878757 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFertile Green at ΔE00 1.547: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fertile GreenΔE00 1.547 · #8b8757
- Candied LimeΔE00 1.821 · #838252
- Army Issue GreenΔE00 1.834 · #838254
- Snap Pea GreenΔE00 2.131 · #8a8650
- Green OliveΔE00 2.204 · #8d8b55
- OreganoΔE00 2.331 · #7f8353
- Special OpsΔE00 2.524 · #868b53
- Bronze GreenΔE00 2.611 · #8d8752
- Woodland WalkΔE00 2.788 · #8b8d63
- Spinach SouffleΔE00 2.815 · #83825b
- Crocodile SmileΔE00 2.899 · #898e58
- Basil ChiffonadeΔE00 2.916 · #828249
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.