Alligator
#886600
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#886600
RGB
136, 102, 0
OKLCh
53.0% 0.109 85.6°
CIELAB (D50)
45.6, 8.2, 52.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.2; on black, Lc -25.5. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 11.4 and 11.4 and 12.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.95:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#886600
protanopia
#6b6b01 · ΔE00 11.4
deuteranopia
#717100 · ΔE00 11.4
tritanopia
#787800 · ΔE00 12.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMuddy Brown at ΔE00 0.867: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Muddy BrownΔE00 0.867 · #886806
- Ground EarthΔE00 2.896 · #7f5f00
- Hè Sè BrownΔE00 3.172 · #7f5e00
- Rat BrownΔE00 3.33 · #885f01
- Sassy OliveΔE00 3.668 · #906b20
- Yukon GoldΔE00 3.92 · #826a21
- Honey Yellow GreenΔE00 4.018 · #937016
- Soil of AvagdduΔE00 4.094 · #845c00
- Hunting JacketΔE00 4.402 · #856829
- Sandy TaupeΔE00 4.613 · #967111
- Bistre BrownΔE00 4.682 · #967117
- Corn HarvestΔE00 4.79 · #8d702a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.