Artichoke
#8f9779
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
#8f9779
RGB
143, 151, 121
OKLCh
66.2% 0.044 119.7°
CIELAB (D50)
61.2, -7.1, 14.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 57.4; on black, Lc -44.3. 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 13.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.06:1 — large text only
Black text
6.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#727a5d 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
#8f9779
protanopia
#969679 · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#959579 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#939394 · ΔE00 13.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAcanthus Leaf at ΔE00 0.511: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Acanthus LeafΔE00 0.511 · #90977a
- Leafy RiseΔE00 0.67 · #8d9679
- Lucky DayΔE00 1.057 · #929a7d
- Cavern MossΔE00 1.352 · #92987d
- Veranda GreenΔE00 1.749 · #8e977e
- LeafletΔE00 2.068 · #8b987b
- Herbal ScentΔE00 2.171 · #8e9b7c
- Whispering WillowΔE00 2.23 · #919c81
- Willowbrook ManorΔE00 2.301 · #929d81
- Royal OakleafΔE00 2.512 · #879473
- Dry HemlockΔE00 2.515 · #909373
- Cider Pear GreenΔE00 2.531 · #8a946f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.