Wasteland
#9c8855
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
#9c8855
RGB
156, 136, 85
OKLCh
63.3% 0.073 88.8°
CIELAB (D50)
57.7, 2.5, 30.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.1; on black, Lc -39.6. 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 7.4 and 7.4 and 13.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.46:1 — large text only
Black text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#887542 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
#9c8855
protanopia
#8a8a55 · ΔE00 7.4
deuteranopia
#8e8e54 · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#929200 · ΔE00 13.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGoldbrown at ΔE00 1.349: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GoldbrownΔE00 1.349 · #9c8a53
- Tibetan SilkΔE00 1.52 · #9c8a52
- Spacious PlainΔE00 1.631 · #9a8557
- Fallow DeerΔE00 1.869 · #9f8d57
- Golden ClayΔE00 1.905 · #968651
- ShankΔE00 2.027 · #a18b5d
- Greek OliveΔE00 2.079 · #a08650
- Wishing TrollΔE00 2.141 · #9a834b
- WoodstockΔE00 2.185 · #9b8a5f
- Picholine OliveΔE00 2.252 · #958251
- WheatmealΔE00 2.322 · #9e8451
- Camouflage OliveΔE00 2.347 · #a28f5c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.