Vitality
#8f9b5b
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8f9b5b
RGB
143, 155, 91
OKLCh
66.5% 0.088 117.5°
CIELAB (D50)
61.9, -12.2, 32.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.6; on black, Lc -45.2. 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 16.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.00:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717c3d 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
#8f9b5b
protanopia
#9a9a5b · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#98985b · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#95958d · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReptilian Leader at ΔE00 1.726: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Reptilian LeaderΔE00 1.726 · #8f9961
- Yanagizome GreenΔE00 1.831 · #8c9e5e
- TopiaryΔE00 1.901 · #8e9655
- Totally BroccoliΔE00 1.941 · #909853
- Banana PalmΔE00 2.222 · #95a263
- Apple JackΔE00 2.314 · #8b974e
- Bold AvocadoΔE00 2.435 · #879550
- Scotland IsleΔE00 2.525 · #87954f
- Zesty AppleΔE00 2.578 · #92a360
- Salvia DivinorumΔE00 2.739 · #929752
- Vesuvian GreenΔE00 2.861 · #879860
- Broad BeanΔE00 2.881 · #94975d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.