Peas Please
#8c7f3c
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8c7f3c
RGB
140, 127, 60
OKLCh
59.4% 0.089 98.5°
CIELAB (D50)
53.3, -1.5, 37.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.5; on black, Lc -34.2. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.03:1 — large text only
Black text
5.22:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.22:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847734 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
#8c7f3c
protanopia
#81813c · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#83833b · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#868600 · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKoke Moss at ΔE00 0.763: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Koke MossΔE00 0.763 · #8b7d3a
- Mossy MeadowΔE00 2.091 · #867e36
- Baikō BrownΔE00 2.266 · #887938
- CapersΔE00 2.274 · #897a3e
- Galia MelonΔE00 2.355 · #8a8342
- Shaded GlenΔE00 2.528 · #8e824a
- Bay LeafΔE00 2.592 · #86793d
- VerdantΔE00 2.771 · #847e35
- Frog’s LegsΔE00 2.835 · #8c8449
- Green MossΔE00 2.842 · #887e48
- ApelandΔE00 2.857 · #8a843b
- Ovoid FruitΔE00 2.905 · #8c7e49
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.