Mossy
#857349
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#857349
RGB
133, 115, 73
OKLCh
56.2% 0.063 87.2°
CIELAB (D50)
49.4, 2.8, 25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.1; on black, Lc -29.6. 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 7.5 and 7.5 and 12.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.55:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#857349
protanopia
#757549 · ΔE00 7.5
deuteranopia
#797948 · ΔE00 7.5
tritanopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 12.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMud House at ΔE00 0.841: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mud HouseΔE00 0.841 · #847146
- Valencia MossΔE00 1.304 · #837048
- Pickled OkraΔE00 1.696 · #887647
- African PlainΔE00 1.709 · #86714a
- OutriggerΔE00 1.827 · #82714d
- Desert WillowΔE00 1.863 · #89734b
- WoodbridgeΔE00 2.025 · #847451
- Wild MushroomΔE00 2.037 · #84704b
- Italian OliveΔE00 2.377 · #807243
- Pyrite Slate GreenΔE00 2.41 · #867452
- Paddle WheelΔE00 2.438 · #88724d
- ReservationΔE00 2.552 · #8c7544
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.