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#8c8e65
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
#8c8e65
RGB
140, 142, 101
OKLCh
63.4% 0.058 110.3°
CIELAB (D50)
58.1, -5.9, 21.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.5; on black, Lc -40.2. 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.
- 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
3.40:1 — large text only
Black text
6.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#787951 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
#8c8e65
protanopia
#8e8e65 · ΔE00 0.8
deuteranopia
#8d8d65 · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#8d8d6e · ΔE00 2.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWoodland Walk at ΔE00 0.46: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Woodland WalkΔE00 0.46 · #8b8d63
- Garden of ParadiseΔE00 0.807 · #8a8d66
- YogiΔE00 1.037 · #8a8c66
- Pesto PasteΔE00 1.189 · #898c66
- Tiny SeedlingΔE00 1.526 · #8a8d69
- Nick’s NookΔE00 1.738 · #909062
- Extra MileΔE00 2.044 · #91916d
- Green CastΔE00 2.059 · #919365
- Hula GirlΔE00 2.111 · #929264
- Desert SageΔE00 2.273 · #90926f
- Playing HookyΔE00 2.33 · #8b8c6b
- Green CoconutΔE00 2.374 · #868e65
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.