Pebble
#9d9880
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
#9d9880
RGB
157, 152, 128
OKLCh
67.7% 0.035 97.5°
CIELAB (D50)
62.8, -1.2, 13.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.4; on black, Lc -46.4. 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 7.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.90:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7760 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
#9d9880
protanopia
#999980 · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#999980 · ΔE00 2.6
tritanopia
#9a9a6b · ΔE00 7.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKnock on Wood at ΔE00 1.081: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Knock on WoodΔE00 1.081 · #9f9b84
- Union SpringsΔE00 1.1 · #9c9680
- OrestesΔE00 1.455 · #9e9b85
- Grey OliveΔE00 1.484 · #a19a7f
- At Ease SoldierΔE00 1.515 · #9e9985
- Slate BrownΔE00 1.843 · #a0987c
- Good EarthΔE00 2.127 · #a09883
- Shortgrass PrairieΔE00 2.148 · #9e957c
- Milk ThistleΔE00 2.17 · #9e9b88
- Dusky MeadowsΔE00 2.29 · #a39b7e
- Herbal WashΔE00 2.345 · #a49b82
- Voysey GreyΔE00 2.422 · #9a937f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.