Negishi Green
#938b4b
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#938b4b
RGB
147, 139, 75
OKLCh
62.9% 0.086 102.2°
CIELAB (D50)
57.5, -3.7, 35.1
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 62.3; on black, Lc -39.4. 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 8.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.48:1 — large text only
Black text
6.04:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.04:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#807838 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
#938b4b
protanopia
#8c8c4b · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#8d8d4b · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 8.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCider Mill at ΔE00 1.417: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cider MillΔE00 1.417 · #938a43
- Retro AvocadoΔE00 1.597 · #958d45
- Warm WetlandsΔE00 1.702 · #8d894a
- Amazon QueenΔE00 1.945 · #948f54
- Cornus GreenΔE00 2.058 · #908c53
- Cardamom GreenΔE00 2.342 · #989057
- Tupelo TreeΔE00 2.51 · #9c9152
- DijonnaiseΔE00 2.562 · #9b8f55
- Delta BreakΔE00 2.614 · #979147
- Frog’s LegsΔE00 2.631 · #8c8449
- Tangy DillΔE00 2.733 · #9a9147
- Bronze GreenΔE00 2.802 · #8d8752
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.