Nugget
#bc9229
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bc9229
RGB
188, 146, 41
OKLCh
68.2% 0.126 85.4°
CIELAB (D50)
63.3, 9.1, 57.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.9; on black, Lc -46.9. 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 12.6 and 12.7 and 13.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#967100 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
#bc9229
protanopia
#97972a · ΔE00 12.6
deuteranopia
#a0a024 · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#a8a800 · ΔE00 13.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLeisure at ΔE00 1.607: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- LeisureΔE00 1.607 · #c19634
- Tawny OliveΔE00 1.848 · #c4962c
- Nugget GoldΔE00 1.901 · #bf961f
- Crispy GoldΔE00 2.101 · #c49832
- OroΔE00 2.215 · #c29436
- Moutarde de BénichonΔE00 2.28 · #bf9005
- Loden YellowΔE00 2.431 · #b68b13
- Hokey PokeyΔE00 2.564 · #bb8e34
- Golden MeanΔE00 2.715 · #c49b35
- Wheat BeerΔE00 2.767 · #bf923b
- Golden HistoryΔE00 2.858 · #bb993a
- Suzani GoldΔE00 2.948 · #c2963f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.