Veranda Gold
#af9968
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
#af9968
RGB
175, 153, 104
OKLCh
69.1% 0.071 86.4°
CIELAB (D50)
64.3, 3.3, 28.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.4; on black, Lc -48.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.1 and 8.1 and 15.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#897444 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
#af9968
protanopia
#9c9c68 · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#a0a067 · ΔE00 8.1
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 15.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCool Camel at ΔE00 0.755: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cool CamelΔE00 0.755 · #ae996b
- Osso BuccoΔE00 0.953 · #ad9769
- Gold CanyonΔE00 1.051 · #ae9769
- Golden MossΔE00 1.119 · #b39b67
- Village CrierΔE00 1.153 · #ab9769
- StarchΔE00 1.477 · #ac9a6c
- AntelopeΔE00 1.793 · #b19664
- Edgy GoldΔE00 1.93 · #b1975f
- There’s No Place Like HomeΔE00 1.938 · #ad9569
- Gathering PlaceΔE00 1.975 · #ad9466
- Wistman’s WoodΔE00 1.977 · #aa9966
- Sunbaked AdobeΔE00 1.98 · #ab9a6e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.