Glazed Chestnut
#967217
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#967217
RGB
150, 114, 23
OKLCh
57.3% 0.110 84.8°
CIELAB (D50)
50.6, 8.5, 51.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 94% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.7; on black, Lc -31.0. 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 11.8 and 11.9 and 12.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.45:1 — large text only
Black text
4.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#957116 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
#967217
protanopia
#777718 · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#7e7e11 · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#858500 · ΔE00 12.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBistre Brown at ΔE00 0.477: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bistre BrownΔE00 0.477 · #967117
- Sandy TaupeΔE00 0.553 · #967111
- PumaΔE00 0.894 · #96711c
- Honey Yellow GreenΔE00 0.918 · #937016
- Mode BeigeΔE00 1.246 · #96711f
- Chamois YellowΔE00 2.437 · #986e19
- Mesozoic GreenΔE00 2.956 · #997700
- Barbarian LeatherΔE00 3.157 · #a17308
- Nataneyu GoldΔE00 3.265 · #a17917
- Vermin BrownΔE00 3.291 · #8f7303
- Mulberry BrownΔE00 3.317 · #956f29
- Bhūrā BrownΔE00 3.423 · #947706
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.