Whispering Willow
#919c81
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
#919c81
RGB
145, 156, 129
OKLCh
67.6% 0.041 125.5°
CIELAB (D50)
62.9, -7.8, 12.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 24% 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 55.1; on black, Lc -46.7. 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.0 and 19.0 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707a61 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
#919c81
protanopia
#9b9b81 · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#999981 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#9797a3 · ΔE00 19.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWillowbrook Manor at ΔE00 0.442: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Willowbrook ManorΔE00 0.442 · #929d81
- Herbal ScentΔE00 1.522 · #8e9b7c
- Lucky DayΔE00 1.538 · #929a7d
- Veranda GreenΔE00 1.75 · #8e977e
- LeafletΔE00 1.775 · #8b987b
- HerbalistΔE00 1.791 · #969e86
- Fresh SodΔE00 1.84 · #91a085
- TriambleΔE00 1.962 · #94a089
- Leafy RiseΔE00 2.172 · #8d9679
- ArtichokeΔE00 2.23 · #8f9779
- Cavern MossΔE00 2.305 · #92987d
- Acanthus LeafΔE00 2.315 · #90977a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.