Jalapeño
#9a8d3f
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#9a8d3f
RGB
154, 141, 63
OKLCh
63.9% 0.100 100.0°
CIELAB (D50)
58.6, -2.4, 42.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.9; on black, Lc -40.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.36:1 — large text only
Black text
6.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.26:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847727 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
#9a8d3f
protanopia
#8f8f3f · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#91913e · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Leaf at ΔE00 1.316: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Banana LeafΔE00 1.316 · #9d8f3a
- GeckoΔE00 1.659 · #9d913c
- Tangy DillΔE00 1.857 · #9a9147
- Off the GridΔE00 1.858 · #9f9049
- Retro AvocadoΔE00 1.965 · #958d45
- Plantation IslandΔE00 2.053 · #9b8a44
- Cider MillΔE00 2.175 · #938a43
- HighballΔE00 2.429 · #928c3c
- Sedge GrassesΔE00 2.452 · #9a8841
- Eden PrairieΔE00 2.453 · #95863c
- Delta BreakΔE00 2.567 · #979147
- Lentil SproutΔE00 2.637 · #a09548
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.