HueComb

Herbalist

#969e86

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

#969e86

RGB

150, 158, 134

OKLCh

68.6% 0.035 122.3°

CIELAB (D50)

64.0, -6.3, 11.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • 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 53.7; on black, Lc -48.1. 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 14.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#727a63 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

#969e86

protanopia

#9d9d86 · ΔE00 3.7

deuteranopia

#9c9c86 · ΔE00 3.8

tritanopia

#9a9aa0 · ΔE00 14.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLeek Green at ΔE00 1.398: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Leek GreenΔE00 1.398 · #979c84
  • Medicine WheelΔE00 1.496 · #99a28c
  • TriambleΔE00 1.775 · #94a089
  • EdamameΔE00 1.779 · #9ca389
  • Whispering WillowΔE00 1.791 · #919c81
  • Willowbrook ManorΔE00 1.85 · #929d81
  • Flagstone QuartziteΔE00 1.932 · #9a9e88
  • Frozen EdamameΔE00 1.932 · #9ca48a
  • Bitter SageΔE00 1.943 · #97a18d
  • False CypressΔE00 1.986 · #939b88
  • Big FishΔE00 2.057 · #99a38e
  • Lucky DayΔE00 2.187 · #929a7d

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