Edamame
#9ca389
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
#9ca389
RGB
156, 163, 137
OKLCh
70.3% 0.038 119.6°
CIELAB (D50)
65.9, -6.1, 12.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 51.1; on black, Lc -50.8. 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 11.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.62:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737a61 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
#9ca389
protanopia
#a2a289 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#a1a189 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#a0a0a0 · ΔE00 11.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrozen Edamame at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Frozen EdamameΔE00 0.489 · #9ca48a
- Zebra GrassΔE00 1.152 · #9da286
- Solid SnakeΔE00 1.594 · #a1a58c
- Medicine WheelΔE00 1.718 · #99a28c
- HerbalistΔE00 1.779 · #969e86
- GladeΔE00 2.014 · #9ca687
- Big FishΔE00 2.242 · #99a38e
- MeadowoodΔE00 2.249 · #9da28e
- Flagstone QuartziteΔE00 2.256 · #9a9e88
- Leek GreenΔE00 2.269 · #979c84
- SageyΔE00 2.345 · #a2aa8c
- Frosty CedarΔE00 2.35 · #a4a78e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.