HueComb

Lazy Lizard

#9c9c4b

A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#9c9c4b

RGB

156, 156, 75

OKLCh

67.5% 0.104 108.9°

CIELAB (D50)

63.1, -8.5, 41.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.1; on black, Lc -46.7. 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

2.89:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7a27 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#9c9c4b

protanopia

#9c9c4b · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#9c9c4b · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#9c9c4b · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLuau Green at ΔE00 1.579: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.