Aged Antics
#886b2e
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#886b2e
RGB
136, 107, 46
OKLCh
54.4% 0.087 83.5°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, 6.7, 37.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.6; on black, Lc -27.2. 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 10.5 and 10.6 and 12.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#886b2e
protanopia
#6f6f2e · ΔE00 10.5
deuteranopia
#74742c · ΔE00 10.6
tritanopia
#7a7a00 · ΔE00 12.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHunting Jacket at ΔE00 1.231: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hunting JacketΔE00 1.231 · #856829
- Kimirucha BrownΔE00 2.236 · #896c39
- Corn HarvestΔE00 2.516 · #8d702a
- Marshy GreenΔE00 2.568 · #8e712e
- Dirt YellowΔE00 2.845 · #926e2e
- By GumΔE00 2.889 · #816a38
- Sassy OliveΔE00 3.098 · #906b20
- Yukon GoldΔE00 3.11 · #826a21
- Mango SquashΔE00 3.276 · #8e6c39
- Siam GoldΔE00 3.388 · #896f40
- Armageddon DunesΔE00 3.492 · #926a25
- Mustard MagicΔE00 3.509 · #857139
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.