Guacamole
#95986b
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
#95986b
RGB
149, 152, 107
OKLCh
66.6% 0.063 111.2°
CIELAB (D50)
61.7, -6.7, 23.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.8; on black, Lc -45.0. 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
3.01:1 — large text only
Black text
6.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777a4e 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
#95986b
protanopia
#98986b · ΔE00 1.1
deuteranopia
#97976b · ΔE00 1.1
tritanopia
#979778 · ΔE00 4.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilk Road at ΔE00 1.679: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Silk RoadΔE00 1.679 · #97976f
- Green CastΔE00 1.683 · #919365
- Boston FernΔE00 1.828 · #90966d
- DomainΔE00 1.883 · #9c9c6e
- Rhind PapyrusΔE00 1.908 · #969565
- Exotic PalmΔE00 2.144 · #909969
- Hula GirlΔE00 2.164 · #929264
- Alamosa GreenΔE00 2.24 · #939b71
- Pine TrailΔE00 2.437 · #9c9f75
- Indian GreenΔE00 2.491 · #91955f
- Curly GrassΔE00 2.538 · #9c9d76
- Dill PowderΔE00 2.55 · #9da073
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.