HueComb

Martian

#aea132

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

Hex

#aea132

RGB

174, 161, 50

OKLCh

70.0% 0.129 102.5°

CIELAB (D50)

65.9, -4.4, 56.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 88% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.4; on black, Lc -50.5. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

2.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847800 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#aea132

protanopia

#a3a332 · ΔE00 3.7

deuteranopia

#a5a531 · ΔE00 3.7

tritanopia

#a8a800 · ΔE00 4.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParrot Feather at ΔE00 1.835: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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