Gargoyle
#abb39e
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
#abb39e
RGB
171, 179, 158
OKLCh
75.4% 0.031 124.2°
CIELAB (D50)
71.9, -5.8, 9.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 16% 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 42.7; on black, Lc -59.5. 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 14.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.17:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#727966 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
#abb39e
protanopia
#b2b29e · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#b1b19e · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#afafb7 · ΔE00 14.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLaurel Mist at ΔE00 0.774: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Laurel MistΔE00 0.774 · #acb5a1
- Stormy DayΔE00 1.27 · #adb5a3
- Ending SpringΔE00 1.407 · #a9af99
- Mellow MoodΔE00 1.543 · #b1b7a1
- Matt SageΔE00 1.825 · #b2b9a5
- Fennel StemΔE00 1.842 · #b1b6a3
- Limestone GreenΔE00 1.861 · #a5af9d
- EnvironmentalΔE00 1.961 · #b1b5a0
- BanksiaΔE00 1.984 · #a6b29a
- Mow the LawnΔE00 2.042 · #a9b49a
- SalviaΔE00 2.123 · #a8b59e
- Desert PearΔE00 2.145 · #aaae9a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.