Matcha Mecha
#9faf6c
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#9faf6c
RGB
159, 175, 108
OKLCh
72.5% 0.092 119.7°
CIELAB (D50)
69.0, -14.0, 32.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.9; on black, Lc -55.2. 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 21.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7d3b 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
#9faf6c
protanopia
#adad6c · ΔE00 4.7
deuteranopia
#abab6d · ΔE00 4.7
tritanopia
#a7a7a9 · ΔE00 21.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmbrella Green at ΔE00 1.034: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Umbrella GreenΔE00 1.034 · #a2af70
- Gallant GreenΔE00 1.577 · #99aa66
- Whirled PeasΔE00 2.043 · #9ba868
- Herbal GardenΔE00 2.05 · #9cad60
- Around the GillsΔE00 2.105 · #a1b670
- EstragonΔE00 2.427 · #a5af76
- Rural EyesΔE00 2.567 · #99af73
- SerpentineΔE00 2.612 · #a2b37a
- Light Birch GreenΔE00 2.682 · #9db567
- TarragonΔE00 2.728 · #a4ae77
- Green SmokeΔE00 2.846 · #9ca664
- Spanish OliveΔE00 2.95 · #a1a867
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.