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#ba9b5d
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ba9b5d
RGB
186, 155, 93
OKLCh
70.4% 0.089 83.7°
CIELAB (D50)
65.8, 6.0, 36.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.5; on black, Lc -50.4. 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 10.3 and 10.5 and 14.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#907234 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
#ba9b5d
protanopia
#9f9f5d · ΔE00 10.3
deuteranopia
#a5a55b · ΔE00 10.5
tritanopia
#abab00 · ΔE00 14.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEscapade Gold at ΔE00 1.184: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Escapade GoldΔE00 1.184 · #b89b59
- Base SandΔE00 1.398 · #bb9955
- Eaton GoldΔE00 1.437 · #bb9f60
- Golden BearΔE00 1.784 · #ba985f
- Desert MossΔE00 1.877 · #bea166
- Gold SpellΔE00 1.988 · #c19d61
- Tangy GreenΔE00 2.115 · #bb9b52
- GrainfieldΔE00 2.125 · #b79e66
- Magic LampΔE00 2.245 · #c2a260
- Buffalo HideΔE00 2.288 · #bb9f6a
- Edgy GoldΔE00 2.323 · #b1975f
- Mojave GoldΔE00 2.395 · #bf9c65
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.