Springtide Melodies
#9aa955
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#9aa955
RGB
154, 169, 85
OKLCh
70.4% 0.111 117.7°
CIELAB (D50)
66.7, -15.0, 41.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.2; on black, Lc -51.8. 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 18.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707d27 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
#9aa955
protanopia
#a7a755 · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#a5a556 · ΔE00 4.2
tritanopia
#a2a298 · ΔE00 18.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOvert Green 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.
- Overt GreenΔE00 1.219 · #97a554
- Stay in LimeΔE00 1.298 · #9fac5c
- Herbal GardenΔE00 1.912 · #9cad60
- Ogryn CamoΔE00 2.001 · #9da94b
- Persian BeltΔE00 2.038 · #99ac4b
- Pandan CakeΔE00 2.053 · #9fb057
- Sour AppleΔE00 2.09 · #a0ac4f
- IntoxicationΔE00 2.516 · #a1ac4d
- Fresh AppleΔE00 2.563 · #97a346
- Arathi HighlandsΔE00 2.632 · #93a344
- Asparagus CreamΔE00 2.662 · #96af54
- Greasy Green BeansΔE00 2.861 · #a2b35a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.