Nile
#afb982
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
#afb982
RGB
175, 185, 130
OKLCh
76.4% 0.075 116.6°
CIELAB (D50)
73.3, -10.4, 26.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.7; on black, Lc -61.6. 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 13.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.08:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737b47 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
#afb982
protanopia
#b8b882 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#b6b682 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#b4b4a8 · ΔE00 13.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLima Green at ΔE00 1.898: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lima GreenΔE00 1.898 · #b1b787
- Fancy FlirtΔE00 2.235 · #b4b780
- Green CurryΔE00 2.355 · #acb977
- Great GreenΔE00 2.409 · #abb486
- JitterbugΔE00 2.45 · #bac08a
- Dried CaspiaΔE00 2.537 · #b6bf7f
- MargaritaΔE00 2.543 · #a9bc81
- Early HarvestΔE00 2.579 · #b9be82
- Aloe PlantΔE00 2.719 · #b8ba87
- Lime LollipopΔE00 2.809 · #b4bd7a
- EstragonΔE00 2.885 · #a5af76
- SerpentineΔE00 2.914 · #a2b37a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.