Palm
#afaf5e
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#afaf5e
RGB
175, 175, 94
OKLCh
73.6% 0.104 108.7°
CIELAB (D50)
70.1, -8.6, 41.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.4; on black, Lc -56.7. 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
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7a27 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
#afaf5e
protanopia
#afaf5e · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#afaf5e · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#afaf5e · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPalm Frond at ΔE00 0.643: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Palm FrondΔE00 0.643 · #aead5b
- Spinach Banana SmoothieΔE00 1.639 · #aaaa55
- Hemp TeaΔE00 1.676 · #b5b35c
- Green MeΔE00 1.811 · #b2b55f
- April GreenΔE00 2.212 · #a9b062
- RodhamΔE00 2.215 · #b2b26c
- Organic GardenΔE00 2.577 · #aba964
- Green OasisΔE00 2.597 · #b0b454
- Hi Def LimeΔE00 2.772 · #bbb465
- The GoodsΔE00 2.841 · #aaa651
- Olive OilΔE00 2.863 · #bab86c
- MotherlandΔE00 2.924 · #bcb667
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.