Desert Locust
#a9a450
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a9a450
RGB
169, 164, 80
OKLCh
70.5% 0.107 105.7°
CIELAB (D50)
66.5, -6.6, 43.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.5; on black, Lc -51.4. 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 6.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7921 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
#a9a450
protanopia
#a5a550 · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#a5a550 · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#a6a60b · ΔE00 6.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThe Goods at ΔE00 0.619: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- The GoodsΔE00 0.619 · #aaa651
- PoplarΔE00 1.939 · #a29f46
- Reed GreenΔE00 1.962 · #a1a14a
- Spinach Banana SmoothieΔE00 2.093 · #aaaa55
- Machine GreenΔE00 2.301 · #a6a23f
- Camo GreenΔE00 2.453 · #a5a542
- Olive ReserveΔE00 2.756 · #a4a84d
- Palm FrondΔE00 2.762 · #aead5b
- Organic MatterΔE00 2.775 · #a99e54
- PickledΔE00 2.784 · #b3a74b
- Wholemeal CookieΔE00 2.943 · #aaa662
- RickrackΔE00 3.075 · #a6a660
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.