HueComb

Gremlin

#a79954

A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#a79954

RGB

167, 153, 84

OKLCh

68.0% 0.091 98.1°

CIELAB (D50)

63.3, -1.6, 37.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.8; on black, Lc -47.0. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.87:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#857731 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#a79954

protanopia

#9b9b54 · ΔE00 4.5

deuteranopia

#9d9d53 · ΔE00 4.6

tritanopia

#a0a000 · ΔE00 9.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFormosan Green at ΔE00 0.999: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.