HueComb

Papyrus

#999911

A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#999911

RGB

153, 153, 17

OKLCh

66.1% 0.140 109.7°

CIELAB (D50)

61.6, -10.6, 61.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.0; on black, Lc -44.8. 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

3.04:1 — large text only

Black text

6.92:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.92:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7b00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#999911

protanopia

#999911 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#999911 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#999911 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTurtle Moss at ΔE00 1.598: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Turtle MossΔE00 1.598 · #939717
  • Pea SoupΔE00 1.892 · #929901
  • Devil’s Flower MantisΔE00 2.524 · #8f9805
  • Old AsparagusΔE00 2.908 · #929000
  • Fistfull of GreenΔE00 3.388 · #a2a415
  • Traffic Light GreenΔE00 3.437 · #8c9900
  • Forest LichenΔE00 3.579 · #9aa22b
  • CountrysideΔE00 3.65 · #a4a404
  • LimettaΔE00 3.669 · #8e9a21
  • Woodruff GreenΔE00 3.937 · #8b9916
  • Art Nouveau GreenΔE00 3.943 · #9c932f
  • Jīn Sè GoldΔE00 3.977 · #a5a502

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