Capers
#897a3e
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#897a3e
RGB
137, 122, 62
OKLCh
58.0% 0.082 95.6°
CIELAB (D50)
51.6, -0.0, 34.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.5; on black, Lc -32.2. 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 5.3 and 5.3 and 9.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.27:1 — large text only
Black text
4.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#85763a 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
#897a3e
protanopia
#7c7c3e · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#7f7f3d · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 9.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBay Leaf at ΔE00 0.906: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bay LeafΔE00 0.906 · #86793d
- Baikō BrownΔE00 1.08 · #887938
- Koke MossΔE00 1.721 · #8b7d3a
- Banyan TreeΔE00 1.813 · #8d793e
- Jumping JuniperΔE00 1.858 · #887636
- Giant Cactus GreenΔE00 2.016 · #88763f
- Caper GreenΔE00 2.023 · #847640
- Dragon WellΔE00 2.092 · #877732
- Marsh GrassΔE00 2.15 · #82763d
- Ovoid FruitΔE00 2.183 · #8c7e49
- Valley VineyardsΔE00 2.25 · #8a763d
- Peas PleaseΔE00 2.274 · #8c7f3c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.