Fernweh
#977b2f
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#977b2f
RGB
151, 123, 47
OKLCh
59.5% 0.100 88.5°
CIELAB (D50)
53.2, 4.9, 44.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.6; on black, Lc -34.1. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.4 and 9.4 and 10.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.05:1 — large text only
Black text
5.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7326 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
#977b2f
protanopia
#7f7f2f · ΔE00 9.4
deuteranopia
#84842d · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#8a8a00 · ΔE00 10.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCardueline Finch at ΔE00 1.558: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cardueline FinchΔE00 1.558 · #957b38
- Spruced UpΔE00 2.18 · #9a7f28
- Metallic SunburstΔE00 2.255 · #9c7c38
- Arlington BronzeΔE00 3.095 · #9f7b35
- HaciendaΔE00 3.105 · #9e8022
- Burnished BronzeΔE00 3.118 · #9c7e40
- Wild OliveΔE00 3.225 · #9c8042
- Persian GoldΔE00 3.265 · #9b7939
- Aubergine GreenΔE00 3.392 · #8b762c
- SneezyΔE00 3.644 · #9d7938
- Jīn Zōng GoldΔE00 3.66 · #8e7618
- Gold EstateΔE00 3.688 · #977a41
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.