Wilderness

#8f886c

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

#8f886c

RGB

143, 136, 108

OKLCh

62.5% 0.041 95.7°

CIELAB (D50)

56.8, -0.8, 16.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
It uses only 32% 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 63.2; on black, Lc -38.5. 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 10.0 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.56:1 — large text only

Black text

5.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e775b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#8f886c

protanopia

#89896c · ΔE00 3.5

deuteranopia

#8a8a6c · ΔE00 3.6

tritanopia

#8c8c48 · ΔE00 10.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRattan Palm at ΔE00 0.583: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Rattan PalmΔE00 0.583 · #8f876b
Western ReserveΔE00 0.862 · #8d876d
Mirrored WillowΔE00 1.064 · #8e876e
Executive CourseΔE00 1.285 · #8f8a70
Tidal ThicketΔE00 1.33 · #8b866b
Tea LeafΔE00 1.41 · #8f8667
Open RangeΔE00 1.531 · #91876b
Sheraton SageΔE00 1.617 · #8f8666
Brown GreyΔE00 1.647 · #8d8468
Burning IdeaΔE00 1.939 · #8f8b72
Stratford SageΔE00 2.162 · #8c8670
Mossy BankΔE00 2.179 · #8b8770

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.