HueComb

Matcha Mecha

#9faf6c

A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#9faf6c

RGB

159, 175, 108

OKLCh

72.5% 0.092 119.7°

CIELAB (D50)

69.0, -14.0, 32.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.9; on black, Lc -55.2. 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 21.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.38:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.82:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.82:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6f7d3b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#9faf6c

protanopia

#adad6c · ΔE00 4.7

deuteranopia

#abab6d · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#a7a7a9 · ΔE00 21.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmbrella Green at ΔE00 1.034: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.