Luxor Gold
#ab8d3f
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ab8d3f
RGB
171, 141, 63
OKLCh
65.6% 0.103 88.2°
CIELAB (D50)
60.3, 5.1, 44.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.8; on black, Lc -42.9. 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 9.7 and 9.8 and 11.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.18:1 — large text only
Black text
6.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#907321 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
#ab8d3f
protanopia
#91913f · ΔE00 9.7
deuteranopia
#97973d · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 11.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlaguelands Beige at ΔE00 0.863: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Plaguelands BeigeΔE00 0.863 · #ab8d44
- TurmericΔE00 0.992 · #ae9041
- Spring BranchΔE00 1.287 · #a98c37
- Pirate’s HookΔE00 1.322 · #b08f42
- Peanut BrittleΔE00 1.475 · #a6893a
- Reef GoldΔE00 1.655 · #a98d36
- AlpineΔE00 1.657 · #ad8a3b
- Amber GreenΔE00 1.83 · #ac8a41
- Venetian GoldΔE00 1.985 · #b39142
- Rich GoldΔE00 2.03 · #aa8833
- Epidote Olvene OreΔE00 2.248 · #ab924b
- Porchetta CrustΔE00 2.256 · #aa8736
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.