Nettle
#bbac7d
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
#bbac7d
RGB
187, 172, 125
OKLCh
74.6% 0.066 92.5°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, 0.4, 26.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.5; on black, Lc -57.7. 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 5.6 and 5.6 and 15.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847649 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
#bbac7d
protanopia
#aeae7d · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#b1b17c · ΔE00 5.6
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 15.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Brew at ΔE00 0.823: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh BrewΔE00 0.823 · #b8aa7d
- Inner CervelaΔE00 1.241 · #bbaa7e
- Chicory GreenΔE00 1.685 · #bbab75
- EcruΔE00 1.838 · #c2b280
- Heavy GoldbrownΔE00 1.938 · #baab74
- Tomatillo SalsaΔE00 1.955 · #bbb085
- Harmonic TanΔE00 2.032 · #c1b287
- Texas SageΔE00 2.056 · #b9a77c
- Goldie OldieΔE00 2.307 · #baad75
- Fresh PeasΔE00 2.31 · #c2b079
- Green FigΔE00 2.313 · #b3a476
- Rhubarb Leaf GreenΔE00 2.405 · #bca872
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.