Forester
#9aa77c
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
#9aa77c
RGB
154, 167, 124
OKLCh
70.7% 0.062 121.6°
CIELAB (D50)
66.6, -10.4, 20.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 36% 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 50.2; on black, Lc -51.8. 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 20.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707c52 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
#9aa77c
protanopia
#a6a67c · ΔE00 4.8
deuteranopia
#a3a37c · ΔE00 4.8
tritanopia
#a1a1a8 · ΔE00 20.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNurturing at ΔE00 2.193: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- NurturingΔE00 2.193 · #a1a97b
- Ivy EnchantmentΔE00 2.206 · #93a272
- Siamese GreenΔE00 2.312 · #9dac79
- Huntington GardenΔE00 2.371 · #96a782
- Cucumber CrushΔE00 2.375 · #a2ac86
- Cucuzza VerdeΔE00 2.554 · #9ba373
- Lady FernΔE00 2.713 · #8fa174
- BroccoflowerΔE00 2.727 · #8fa277
- Luscious LimeΔE00 2.917 · #91a673
- Fresh GuacamoleΔE00 2.996 · #a2b07e
- Filigree GreenΔE00 3.085 · #a5af89
- Lettuce MoundΔE00 3.087 · #92a772
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.