Chorus of Frogs
#8c9632
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8c9632
RGB
140, 150, 50
OKLCh
64.5% 0.123 114.8°
CIELAB (D50)
59.8, -13.8, 49.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.3; on black, Lc -42.4. 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 12.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.22:1 — large text only
Black text
6.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#747d0d 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
#8c9632
protanopia
#959532 · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#939333 · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#919170 · ΔE00 12.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAppletini at ΔE00 1.712: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- AppletiniΔE00 1.712 · #929637
- LimettaΔE00 2.431 · #8e9a21
- Wasabi NutsΔE00 2.579 · #849137
- Snakes in the GrassΔE00 2.655 · #889717
- Vigorous WasabiΔE00 2.682 · #8b9d30
- Split PeaΔE00 2.729 · #96983f
- Bean ShootΔE00 2.79 · #91923a
- Woodruff GreenΔE00 2.92 · #8b9916
- Densetsu GreenΔE00 3.242 · #889911
- ChrysoliteΔE00 3.277 · #8e9849
- Café de ParisΔE00 3.416 · #889944
- Pickled CucumberΔE00 3.485 · #94a135
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.