Mushroom Forest
#8e8062
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
#8e8062
RGB
142, 128, 98
OKLCh
60.5% 0.046 85.8°
CIELAB (D50)
54.3, 2.0, 18.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 66.2; on black, Lc -35.4. 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 7.0 and 7.1 and 16.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.88:1 — large text only
Black text
5.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837558 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
#8e8062
protanopia
#828262 · ΔE00 7.0
deuteranopia
#848462 · ΔE00 7.1
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHidden Cottage at ΔE00 1.08: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hidden CottageΔE00 1.08 · #8d7f64
- FingerpaintΔE00 1.294 · #8a7e61
- Gingko TreeΔE00 1.438 · #918260
- Lagoon MossΔE00 1.516 · #8b7e64
- Ceramic PotΔE00 1.628 · #908268
- Prairie GroveΔE00 1.648 · #8e7d5d
- Meadow TrailΔE00 1.76 · #8d8168
- Deep MarshΔE00 1.905 · #938565
- Canyon VerdeΔE00 2.053 · #8a7e5c
- Charlie HorseΔE00 2.066 · #948263
- ElmwoodΔE00 2.08 · #8c7c61
- Rocks of NormandyΔE00 2.202 · #8e7d62
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.