Rich Gold
#aa8833
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#aa8833
RGB
170, 136, 51
OKLCh
64.3% 0.110 86.7°
CIELAB (D50)
58.8, 6.7, 48.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.8; on black, Lc -41.0. 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 10.9 and 10.9 and 12.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.34:1 — large text only
Black text
6.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#937216 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
#aa8833
protanopia
#8c8c34 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#939330 · ΔE00 10.9
tritanopia
#9a9a00 · ΔE00 12.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPorchetta Crust at ΔE00 0.795: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Porchetta CrustΔE00 0.795 · #aa8736
- HoneyΔE00 1.071 · #ae8934
- AlpineΔE00 1.312 · #ad8a3b
- Peanut BrittleΔE00 1.61 · #a6893a
- Camel ToeΔE00 1.611 · #ac8a2a
- Mineral UmberΔE00 1.745 · #b18b32
- Spring BranchΔE00 1.846 · #a98c37
- Garden SproutΔE00 1.96 · #ab863a
- Luxor GoldΔE00 2.03 · #ab8d3f
- Amber GreenΔE00 2.094 · #ac8a41
- Super GoldΔE00 2.123 · #aa8822
- Reef GoldΔE00 2.32 · #a98d36
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.