HueComb

Farmer’s Market

#8f917c

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

#8f917c

RGB

143, 145, 124

OKLCh

64.9% 0.030 111.7°

CIELAB (D50)

59.6, -3.6, 10.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 21% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.5; on black, Lc -42.2. 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

3.23:1 — large text only

Black text

6.51:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.51:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#777864 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#8f917c

protanopia

#91917c · ΔE00 1.0

deuteranopia

#90907c · ΔE00 1.1

tritanopia

#909083 · ΔE00 3.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRestoration at ΔE00 1.417: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • RestorationΔE00 1.417 · #939581
  • Epic GreenΔE00 1.952 · #8d8d75
  • Paseo VerdeΔE00 2.034 · #929178
  • EyreΔE00 2.046 · #8f9482
  • Lavender Leaf GreenΔE00 2.122 · #8c9180
  • Elemental GreenΔE00 2.191 · #969783
  • Water ScrubΔE00 2.193 · #949381
  • Swamp SessionsΔE00 2.28 · #93977f
  • Forest CanopyΔE00 2.376 · #969582
  • Dry SageΔE00 2.401 · #8c8b76
  • Sandgrass GreenΔE00 2.46 · #93917f
  • Sabiseiji GreyΔE00 2.463 · #898a74

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.