Witch Brew
#888738
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#888738
RGB
136, 135, 56
OKLCh
60.8% 0.102 108.4°
CIELAB (D50)
55.2, -7.7, 41.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.2; on black, Lc -36.5. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
3.77:1 — large text only
Black text
5.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7a2a 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
#888738
protanopia
#878738 · ΔE00 0.3
deuteranopia
#878738 · ΔE00 0.3
tritanopia
#87872e · ΔE00 1.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWoodbine at ΔE00 1.238: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- WoodbineΔE00 1.238 · #8a8a36
- Vegetable GardenΔE00 1.899 · #8b8c40
- ApelandΔE00 1.908 · #8a843b
- Overgrown CitadelΔE00 2.044 · #888844
- Cute PixieΔE00 2.154 · #8d8d40
- Majorca GreenΔE00 2.273 · #808337
- SycamoreΔE00 2.476 · #908d39
- Buffy CitrineΔE00 2.493 · #868929
- Martina OliveΔE00 2.496 · #8e8e41
- HighballΔE00 2.685 · #928c3c
- Green CommandoΔE00 2.781 · #828039
- East AuroraΔE00 2.85 · #878b46
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.