Muddy Brown
#886806
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#886806
RGB
136, 104, 6
OKLCh
53.5% 0.107 86.9°
CIELAB (D50)
46.2, 7.2, 51.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.6; on black, Lc -26.1. 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 10.7 and 10.8 and 11.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#886806
protanopia
#6c6c07 · ΔE00 10.7
deuteranopia
#737300 · ΔE00 10.8
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 11.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlligator at ΔE00 0.867: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AlligatorΔE00 0.867 · #886600
- Yukon GoldΔE00 3.304 · #826a21
- Ground EarthΔE00 3.407 · #7f5f00
- Honey Yellow GreenΔE00 3.534 · #937016
- Sassy OliveΔE00 3.535 · #906b20
- Hè Sè BrownΔE00 3.741 · #7f5e00
- Rat BrownΔE00 4.096 · #885f01
- Hunting JacketΔE00 4.157 · #856829
- Corn HarvestΔE00 4.159 · #8d702a
- Sandy TaupeΔE00 4.213 · #967111
- Bistre BrownΔE00 4.281 · #967117
- PumaΔE00 4.423 · #96711c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.