Bullfrog
#8a966a
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
#8a966a
RGB
138, 150, 106
OKLCh
65.2% 0.064 120.6°
CIELAB (D50)
60.2, -10.3, 21.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.7; on black, Lc -43.1. 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 19.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.16:1 — large text only
Black text
6.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707c51 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
#8a966a
protanopia
#95956a · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#93936a · ΔE00 4.5
tritanopia
#909094 · ΔE00 19.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCactus Valley at ΔE00 1.011: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cactus ValleyΔE00 1.011 · #88976b
- Exotic PalmΔE00 1.953 · #909969
- Cider Pear GreenΔE00 1.958 · #8a946f
- Boston FernΔE00 2.212 · #90966d
- EpsomΔE00 2.362 · #829161
- Alamosa GreenΔE00 2.416 · #939b71
- Green CoconutΔE00 2.811 · #868e65
- Green EnergyΔE00 2.918 · #80905f
- Vesuvian GreenΔE00 2.963 · #879860
- Usuao BlueΔE00 3.014 · #8c9c76
- Sweet FlorenceΔE00 3.229 · #8a9b76
- Royal OakleafΔE00 3.27 · #879473
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.