Bonsai Garden
#9e9e7c
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
#9e9e7c
RGB
158, 158, 124
OKLCh
69.0% 0.048 107.6°
CIELAB (D50)
64.4, -4.3, 17.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 53.2; on black, Lc -48.7. 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
2.75:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797958 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
#9e9e7c
protanopia
#9e9e7c · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#9e9e7c · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#9e9e7c · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Pear at ΔE00 0.505: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- French PearΔE00 0.505 · #9e9f7d
- French ParsleyΔE00 1.022 · #9ea07d
- Fairbank GreenΔE00 1.383 · #9d9c7e
- Rigby RidgeΔE00 1.414 · #a0a082
- Curly GrassΔE00 1.555 · #9c9d76
- Dark EnvyΔE00 2.122 · #a4a582
- FennellyΔE00 2.199 · #9a9e80
- LocustΔE00 2.413 · #a2a580
- Pine TrailΔE00 2.487 · #9c9f75
- Battle HarbourΔE00 2.545 · #9c9c82
- Cross CountryΔE00 2.597 · #a5a080
- Wetland StoneΔE00 2.624 · #a49f80
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.