Swamp Sessions
#93977f
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
#93977f
RGB
147, 151, 127
OKLCh
66.6% 0.035 115.0°
CIELAB (D50)
61.6, -4.8, 12.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 56.8; on black, Lc -44.9. 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 6.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.01:1 — large text only
Black text
6.97:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.97:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757962 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
#93977f
protanopia
#97977f · ΔE00 1.9
deuteranopia
#96967f · ΔE00 2.0
tritanopia
#95958d · ΔE00 6.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilkweed Pod at ΔE00 0.908: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Milkweed PodΔE00 0.908 · #95987e
- Gundaroo GreenΔE00 1.295 · #959984
- Cavern MossΔE00 1.331 · #92987d
- Green OnyxΔE00 1.466 · #989a82
- Canyon FallsΔE00 1.564 · #97987f
- Leek GreenΔE00 1.611 · #979c84
- RestorationΔE00 1.773 · #939581
- Blanched ThymeΔE00 2.046 · #949579
- Elemental GreenΔE00 2.076 · #969783
- Acanthus LeafΔE00 2.102 · #90977a
- Veranda GreenΔE00 2.266 · #8e977e
- Farmer’s MarketΔE00 2.28 · #8f917c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.