Sunken Gold
#b29700
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b29700
RGB
178, 151, 0
OKLCh
68.0% 0.140 96.3°
CIELAB (D50)
63.4, 1.4, 66.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.7; on black, Lc -47.2. 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 7.6 and 7.6 and 8.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8b7600 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b29700
protanopia
#9a9a02 · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 7.6
tritanopia
#a5a500 · ΔE00 8.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Puree at ΔE00 0.176: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Banana PureeΔE00 0.176 · #b29705
- Kalliene YellowΔE00 0.762 · #b59808
- Faint GoldΔE00 2.105 · #b59410
- Hidden TribeΔE00 2.221 · #bb9900
- PerennialΔE00 2.32 · #bc9b08
- Bark SawdustΔE00 2.337 · #ab9004
- Main Mast GoldΔE00 2.369 · #b79400
- ManureΔE00 2.449 · #ad900d
- SaharaΔE00 2.537 · #b79826
- Buddha GoldΔE00 2.58 · #bc9b1b
- High StrungΔE00 2.701 · #ac9825
- Titanite YellowΔE00 2.851 · #ad8f0f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.