Willow Leaf
#a1a46d
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
#a1a46d
RGB
161, 164, 109
OKLCh
70.3% 0.075 110.8°
CIELAB (D50)
66.1, -7.7, 28.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.9; on black, Lc -51.0. 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
2.61:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#787a45 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
#a1a46d
protanopia
#a4a46d · ΔE00 1.0
deuteranopia
#a3a36d · ΔE00 1.0
tritanopia
#a3a37b · ΔE00 3.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCocktail Olive at ΔE00 0.496: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cocktail OliveΔE00 0.496 · #9fa36c
- Dry GrassΔE00 0.753 · #9ea26b
- Always AppleΔE00 1.833 · #a0a667
- Spanish OliveΔE00 2.39 · #a1a867
- CardamomΔE00 2.427 · #aaaa77
- Gothic Revival GreenΔE00 2.519 · #a0a160
- Dill PowderΔE00 2.601 · #9da073
- Cucuzza VerdeΔE00 2.614 · #9ba373
- Wasabi GreenΔE00 2.618 · #a9ad74
- Elf SlippersΔE00 2.792 · #a6a865
- Mossy CavernΔE00 2.832 · #a4a97b
- Green SmokeΔE00 2.852 · #9ca664
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.