Pickled
#b3a74b
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b3a74b
RGB
179, 167, 75
OKLCh
72.0% 0.114 101.9°
CIELAB (D50)
68.1, -4.2, 48.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. 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 6.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#84780f 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
#b3a74b
protanopia
#a8a84b · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#abab4a · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#adad00 · ΔE00 6.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMoss Stone at ΔE00 1.03: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Moss StoneΔE00 1.03 · #b4a54b
- BrassΔE00 1.43 · #b5a642
- Dill GreenΔE00 1.57 · #b6ac4b
- Cress GreenΔE00 2.357 · #bca949
- Forest TentΔE00 2.468 · #bba748
- Rain SlickerΔE00 2.532 · #bca849
- Star Fruit Yellow GreenΔE00 2.763 · #beaa4a
- Desert LocustΔE00 2.784 · #a9a450
- The GoodsΔE00 2.786 · #aaa651
- Queen PalmΔE00 2.929 · #ad9e4b
- Gilded PestoΔE00 2.958 · #bbaf5e
- Parrot FeatherΔE00 3.021 · #a9a237
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.