In a Pickle
#978c59
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
#978c59
RGB
151, 140, 89
OKLCh
63.7% 0.071 97.5°
CIELAB (D50)
58.3, -1.4, 28.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.3; on black, Lc -40.4. 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 11.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.38:1 — large text only
Black text
6.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827745 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
#978c59
protanopia
#8d8d59 · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#8f8f59 · ΔE00 4.0
tritanopia
#929200 · ΔE00 11.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSabo Garden at ΔE00 0.513: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sabo GardenΔE00 0.513 · #978d59
- Pineapple SageΔE00 1.788 · #9c8f60
- Nile ReedΔE00 1.823 · #968f5f
- DijonnaiseΔE00 1.852 · #9b8f55
- Trough Shell BrownΔE00 1.874 · #918754
- TirolΔE00 1.985 · #9e915c
- Cardamom GreenΔE00 2.034 · #989057
- Tate OliveΔE00 2.098 · #988f63
- Cypress GreenΔE00 2.135 · #9e8f57
- Enchanted WoodΔE00 2.399 · #94895f
- Golden ClayΔE00 2.561 · #968651
- Green OchreΔE00 2.59 · #9f8f55
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.