Antique
#8b846d
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
#8b846d
RGB
139, 132, 109
OKLCh
61.3% 0.034 93.1°
CIELAB (D50)
55.3, -0.2, 13.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% 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 64.9; on black, Lc -36.7. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.74:1 — large text only
Black text
5.62:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.62:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7760 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
#8b846d
protanopia
#85856d · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#86866d · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#88884b · ΔE00 10.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStratford Sage at ΔE00 0.894: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Stratford SageΔE00 0.894 · #8c8670
- Mirrored WillowΔE00 1.261 · #8e876e
- Pettingill SageΔE00 1.561 · #88806a
- Western ReserveΔE00 1.584 · #8d876d
- Mossy BankΔE00 1.823 · #8b8770
- Brown GreyΔE00 1.828 · #8d8468
- Tidal ThicketΔE00 1.96 · #8b866b
- Rattan PalmΔE00 2.002 · #8f876b
- WildernessΔE00 2.185 · #8f886c
- Silver SageΔE00 2.193 · #8e8572
- Overgrown GraniteΔE00 2.24 · #8b8265
- Army IssueΔE00 2.296 · #8a806b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.