Gecko
#9d913c
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#9d913c
RGB
157, 145, 60
OKLCh
65.0% 0.107 101.3°
CIELAB (D50)
60.0, -3.3, 45.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.2; on black, Lc -42.5. 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 6.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.21:1 — large text only
Black text
6.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#84781e 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
#9d913c
protanopia
#92923c · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#95953b · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#979700 · ΔE00 6.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Leaf at ΔE00 0.831: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Banana LeafΔE00 0.831 · #9d8f3a
- JalapeñoΔE00 1.659 · #9a8d3f
- Lentil SproutΔE00 1.875 · #a09548
- Shimmering GladeΔE00 1.887 · #a4943a
- Tangy DillΔE00 2.039 · #9a9147
- Art Nouveau GreenΔE00 2.188 · #9c932f
- 18th Century GreenΔE00 2.43 · #a59344
- Sleepy HamletΔE00 2.48 · #9b9028
- Off the GridΔE00 2.503 · #9f9049
- Delta BreakΔE00 2.693 · #979147
- PlantainΔE00 2.841 · #97943b
- Uguisu GreenΔE00 2.851 · #928c36
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.