Quiet Thicket
#aaad94
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
#aaad94
RGB
170, 173, 148
OKLCh
73.8% 0.035 112.8°
CIELAB (D50)
70.0, -4.4, 12.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.5; on black, Lc -56.6. 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
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#767961 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
#aaad94
protanopia
#adad94 · ΔE00 1.4
deuteranopia
#acac94 · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#acac9e · ΔE00 4.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOlive Sprig at ΔE00 0.641: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Olive SprigΔE00 0.641 · #acaf95
- Cool PineΔE00 1.426 · #acad97
- BudΔE00 1.458 · #a5a88f
- Chinese Tea GreenΔE00 1.712 · #acad98
- Frosty CedarΔE00 1.755 · #a4a78e
- Ending SpringΔE00 1.793 · #a9af99
- Desert PearΔE00 1.853 · #aaae9a
- White CabbageΔE00 1.967 · #b0b49b
- Spring WalkΔE00 2.022 · #acb193
- Photo GreyΔE00 2.077 · #aead96
- StillΔE00 2.315 · #adaf9c
- Simply SageΔE00 2.379 · #a7a996
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.