Around the Gills
#a1b670
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a1b670
RGB
161, 182, 112
OKLCh
74.4% 0.097 122.4°
CIELAB (D50)
71.2, -16.2, 33.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.8; on black, Lc -58.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.0 and 5.9 and 29.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6b7e39 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
#a1b670
protanopia
#b4b470 · ΔE00 6.0
deuteranopia
#b0b071 · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#acacbb · ΔE00 29.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Birch Green at ΔE00 1.585: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Light Birch GreenΔE00 1.585 · #9db567
- Matcha MechaΔE00 2.105 · #9faf6c
- Green CurryΔE00 2.478 · #acb977
- OlivineΔE00 2.508 · #9ab973
- Tan GreenΔE00 2.581 · #a9be70
- Umbrella GreenΔE00 2.639 · #a2af70
- SerpentineΔE00 2.68 · #a2b37a
- Rural EyesΔE00 2.912 · #99af73
- MargaritaΔE00 2.982 · #a9bc81
- Death GuardΔE00 3.095 · #9eb37b
- Herbal GardenΔE00 3.177 · #9cad60
- Gallant GreenΔE00 3.372 · #99aa66
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.