Densetsu Green
#889911
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#889911
RGB
136, 153, 17
OKLCh
64.7% 0.146 117.5°
CIELAB (D50)
60.2, -18.0, 59.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.7; on black, Lc -43.0. 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 20.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.18:1 — large text only
Black text
6.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7e00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#889911
protanopia
#979710 · ΔE00 4.5
deuteranopia
#949414 · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#919182 · ΔE00 20.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBioShock at ΔE00 0.709: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BioShockΔE00 0.709 · #889900
- Woodruff GreenΔE00 0.741 · #8b9916
- Snakes in the GrassΔE00 0.791 · #889717
- Traffic Light GreenΔE00 1.442 · #8c9900
- LimettaΔE00 1.506 · #8e9a21
- Devil’s Flower MantisΔE00 2.243 · #8f9805
- Vigorous WasabiΔE00 2.714 · #8b9d30
- Pea SoupΔE00 2.931 · #929901
- NoxiousΔE00 3.01 · #89a203
- Mossy WoodsΔE00 3.083 · #7a9703
- Chorus of FrogsΔE00 3.242 · #8c9632
- Turtle MossΔE00 3.298 · #939717
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.