Formosan Green
#a69a51
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a69a51
RGB
166, 154, 81
OKLCh
68.1% 0.095 100.1°
CIELAB (D50)
63.5, -2.8, 39.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.6; on black, Lc -47.2. 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 8.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.85:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#83772d 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
#a69a51
protanopia
#9b9b51 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#9e9e50 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 8.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGremlin at ΔE00 0.999: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GremlinΔE00 0.999 · #a79954
- Organic MatterΔE00 1.229 · #a99e54
- Iyanden DarksunΔE00 1.524 · #a59a59
- Lentil SproutΔE00 1.885 · #a09548
- Loveliest LeavesΔE00 2.096 · #a69a5c
- Mediaeval SulphurΔE00 2.216 · #a79f5c
- Queen PalmΔE00 2.313 · #ad9e4b
- Burnished GoldΔE00 2.316 · #aa9855
- Tallarn SandΔE00 2.349 · #a79b5e
- Prickly PearΔE00 2.465 · #a89942
- Faded KhakiΔE00 2.685 · #a5975b
- Spring MossΔE00 2.716 · #a99757
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.