Overgrown Citadel
#888844
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#888844
RGB
136, 136, 68
OKLCh
61.2% 0.091 108.8°
CIELAB (D50)
55.6, -7.4, 36.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.7; on black, Lc -37.0. 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.
- 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
3.72:1 — large text only
Black text
5.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a7a36 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
#888844
protanopia
#888844 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#888844 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#888844 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEast Aurora at ΔE00 1.485: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- East AuroraΔE00 1.485 · #878b46
- Enough Is EnoughΔE00 1.672 · #898c4a
- Warm WetlandsΔE00 1.713 · #8d894a
- Vegetable GardenΔE00 1.882 · #8b8c40
- Witch BrewΔE00 2.044 · #888738
- DrabΔE00 2.134 · #828344
- Cute PixieΔE00 2.301 · #8d8d40
- ApelandΔE00 2.523 · #8a843b
- Martina OliveΔE00 2.564 · #8e8e41
- Green JalapeñoΔE00 2.671 · #8c8e51
- Galia MelonΔE00 2.672 · #8a8342
- Majorca GreenΔE00 2.693 · #808337
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.