Gallant Green
#99aa66
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#99aa66
RGB
153, 170, 102
OKLCh
70.9% 0.094 120.3°
CIELAB (D50)
67.1, -14.5, 32.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.6; on black, Lc -52.4. 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.
- protanopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.0 and 23.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.30:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6e7d3a 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
#99aa66
protanopia
#a8a866 · ΔE00 5.0
deuteranopia
#a5a567 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#a2a2a7 · ΔE00 23.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhirled Peas at ΔE00 1.219: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Whirled PeasΔE00 1.219 · #9ba868
- Matcha MechaΔE00 1.577 · #9faf6c
- Herbal GardenΔE00 1.893 · #9cad60
- Green SmokeΔE00 2.068 · #9ca664
- Zesty AppleΔE00 2.127 · #92a360
- Umbrella GreenΔE00 2.214 · #a2af70
- Green PlazaΔE00 2.334 · #98a76e
- Banana PalmΔE00 2.469 · #95a263
- Spanish OliveΔE00 2.798 · #a1a867
- Rural EyesΔE00 2.849 · #99af73
- Stay in LimeΔE00 2.886 · #9fac5c
- Always AppleΔE00 3.139 · #a0a667
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.