Fennelly
#9a9e80
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
#9a9e80
RGB
154, 158, 128
OKLCh
68.8% 0.043 113.7°
CIELAB (D50)
64.2, -5.5, 15.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 53.5; on black, Lc -48.4. 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 6.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#76795c 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
#9a9e80
protanopia
#9e9e80 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#9d9d80 · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#9c9c8e · ΔE00 6.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZebra Grass at ΔE00 1.463: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Zebra GrassΔE00 1.463 · #9da286
- Rookwood JadeΔE00 1.75 · #979f7f
- French PearΔE00 1.888 · #9e9f7d
- French ParsleyΔE00 1.9 · #9ea07d
- Rigby RidgeΔE00 2.023 · #a0a082
- Leek GreenΔE00 2.127 · #979c84
- Bonsai GardenΔE00 2.199 · #9e9e7c
- Milkweed PodΔE00 2.211 · #95987e
- Battle HarbourΔE00 2.261 · #9c9c82
- Fairbank GreenΔE00 2.305 · #9d9c7e
- Renkon BeigeΔE00 2.332 · #989f7a
- Lucky DayΔE00 2.346 · #929a7d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.