HueComb

Amazon Queen

#948f54

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

#948f54

RGB

148, 143, 84

OKLCh

64.0% 0.080 104.2°

CIELAB (D50)

58.8, -4.6, 32.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.6; on black, Lc -41.1. 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 6.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.32:1 — large text only

Black text

6.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e793e 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

#948f54

protanopia

#909054 · ΔE00 1.7

deuteranopia

#909054 · ΔE00 1.7

tritanopia

#91912b · ΔE00 6.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCornus Green at ΔE00 1.215: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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