Rural Green
#8d844d
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8d844d
RGB
141, 132, 77
OKLCh
60.8% 0.076 100.2°
CIELAB (D50)
55.0, -2.5, 30.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.4; on black, Lc -36.3. 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 9.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.79:1 — large text only
Black text
5.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817841 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
#8d844d
protanopia
#85854d · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#87874d · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#898900 · ΔE00 9.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSour Bubba at ΔE00 0.773: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sour BubbaΔE00 0.773 · #8b844e
- Dried Bay LeafΔE00 0.796 · #8c854f
- Frog’s LegsΔE00 0.938 · #8c8449
- Shaded GlenΔE00 1.219 · #8e824a
- Bronze GreenΔE00 1.49 · #8d8752
- Trough Shell BrownΔE00 1.588 · #918754
- Snap Pea GreenΔE00 1.868 · #8a8650
- Aged EucalyptusΔE00 2.128 · #898253
- Green MossΔE00 2.196 · #887e48
- Galia MelonΔE00 2.264 · #8a8342
- Mountain OliveΔE00 2.485 · #908456
- Lucky BambooΔE00 2.525 · #93834b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.