Lemongrass
#999a86
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#999a86
RGB
153, 154, 134
OKLCh
68.0% 0.029 109.5°
CIELAB (D50)
63.1, -3.1, 10.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 54.9; on black, Lc -46.9. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
2.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777865 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
#999a86
protanopia
#9a9a86 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#9a9a86 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#9a9a8a · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Fog at ΔE00 0.617: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Green FogΔE00 0.617 · #989a87
- Elemental GreenΔE00 0.969 · #969783
- Into the WildΔE00 1.214 · #999885
- Concrete JungleΔE00 1.292 · #999988
- RestorationΔE00 1.772 · #939581
- Forest CanopyΔE00 1.834 · #969582
- California SagebrushΔE00 1.915 · #959988
- Milk ThistleΔE00 2.237 · #9e9b88
- Deep SeagrassΔE00 2.255 · #959889
- Thames FogΔE00 2.449 · #949586
- Water ScrubΔE00 2.472 · #949381
- Laurel LeafΔE00 2.484 · #969b8b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.