Beige and Sage
#bbc199
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
#bbc199
RGB
187, 193, 153
OKLCh
79.6% 0.055 114.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.8, -7.2, 19.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.5; on black, Lc -67.0. 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 8.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757a55 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
#bbc199
protanopia
#c0c099 · ΔE00 2.3
deuteranopia
#bfbf99 · ΔE00 2.4
tritanopia
#bebeaf · ΔE00 8.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaspalum Grass at ΔE00 1.264: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Paspalum GrassΔE00 1.264 · #b9bd97
- Green MistΔE00 1.353 · #bfc298
- Animal KingdomΔE00 1.789 · #bcc09e
- Gloaming GreenΔE00 1.875 · #b4be93
- Pale Spring MorningΔE00 2.242 · #b3be98
- SeagrassΔE00 2.292 · #bcc6a2
- Chameleon TangoΔE00 2.303 · #c0c2a0
- Sage SplendourΔE00 2.53 · #c3c6a4
- RejuvenateΔE00 2.696 · #c4c7a5
- Secret GladeΔE00 2.715 · #b5b88d
- Wispy MintΔE00 2.836 · #bcc7a4
- SeedlingΔE00 2.859 · #c0cba1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.