Mohalla

#a79b7e

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

#a79b7e

RGB

167, 155, 126

OKLCh

69.2% 0.043 88.2°

CIELAB (D50)

64.5, 1.0, 16.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 30% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.2; on black, Lc -48.7. 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 5.9 and 6.0 and 15.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.75:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#81765a 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

#a79b7e

protanopia

#9c9c7e · ΔE00 5.9

deuteranopia

#9f9f7e · ΔE00 6.0

tritanopia

#a1a132 · ΔE00 15.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHarvest Dance at ΔE00 0.629: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Harvest DanceΔE00 0.629 · #a5997c
  • BuffhideΔE00 0.77 · #a79c81
  • Winter SageΔE00 0.837 · #aa9d80
  • Olive ChutneyΔE00 0.922 · #a6997a
  • Worn KhakiΔE00 1.049 · #a69c81
  • Sweet Pea in a PodΔE00 1.26 · #a89e81
  • Herbal WashΔE00 1.726 · #a49b82
  • Windmill ParkΔE00 1.757 · #a79b83
  • Wheat TortillaΔE00 1.858 · #a49a79
  • LivingstonΔE00 1.893 · #a39880
  • Exploring KhakiΔE00 1.924 · #aa9a79
  • Dusky MeadowsΔE00 1.973 · #a39b7e

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