Estragon
#a5af76
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
#a5af76
RGB
165, 175, 118
OKLCh
73.2% 0.078 116.5°
CIELAB (D50)
69.6, -10.6, 28.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.0; on black, Lc -56.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737c44 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
#a5af76
protanopia
#aeae76 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#acac76 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#aaaa9d · ΔE00 13.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTarragon at ΔE00 0.518: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TarragonΔE00 0.518 · #a4ae77
- Umbrella GreenΔE00 1.412 · #a2af70
- Wasabi GreenΔE00 1.906 · #a9ad74
- SerpentineΔE00 2.205 · #a2b37a
- Fresh GuacamoleΔE00 2.302 · #a2b07e
- Timothy GrassΔE00 2.32 · #adb274
- Matcha MechaΔE00 2.427 · #9faf6c
- Siamese GreenΔE00 2.555 · #9dac79
- Whirled PeasΔE00 2.84 · #9ba868
- NileΔE00 2.885 · #afb982
- NurturingΔE00 2.921 · #a1a97b
- Spanish OliveΔE00 2.941 · #a1a867
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.