Kosher Khaki
#888877
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#888877
RGB
136, 136, 119
OKLCh
62.2% 0.025 107.1°
CIELAB (D50)
56.3, -2.3, 9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 63.6; on black, Lc -38.1. 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.
- 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
3.60:1 — large text only
Black text
5.83:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.83:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#787867 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
#888877
protanopia
#888877 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#888877 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#888877 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMediaeval Cobblestone at ΔE00 1.471: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mediaeval CobblestoneΔE00 1.471 · #878573
- Hanover PewterΔE00 1.542 · #848472
- Mountain RoadΔE00 2.004 · #868578
- Cottage Lattice GreenΔE00 2.338 · #828676
- MeanderΔE00 2.347 · #8f8c79
- Witch Hazel LeafΔE00 2.823 · #8e8976
- CompassΔE00 2.841 · #8a877b
- TortugaΔE00 2.879 · #84816f
- GunsmithΔE00 2.938 · #818070
- Connected GreyΔE00 2.954 · #898473
- IncognitoΔE00 3.066 · #8e8e82
- Olivine GreyΔE00 3.224 · #928e7c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.