Motherland
#bcb667
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bcb667
RGB
188, 182, 103
OKLCh
76.4% 0.101 104.7°
CIELAB (D50)
73.3, -6.0, 40.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.9; on black, Lc -61.3. 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 7.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.09:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7928 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
#bcb667
protanopia
#b7b767 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#b8b867 · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#b9b930 · ΔE00 7.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHi Def Lime at ΔE00 0.58: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hi Def LimeΔE00 0.58 · #bbb465
- Golden CartridgeΔE00 0.61 · #bdb76b
- KohlrabiΔE00 1.224 · #c0b76c
- Linden GreenΔE00 1.351 · #c1b76a
- Columbian GoldΔE00 1.378 · #beb861
- Olive OilΔE00 1.412 · #bab86c
- Golden GreenΔE00 1.564 · #bdb369
- New AvocadoΔE00 1.73 · #bdb264
- Straw HutΔE00 1.891 · #bdb268
- Hemp TeaΔE00 2.03 · #b5b35c
- TegreenΔE00 2.044 · #c1b65f
- Summer MossΔE00 2.102 · #b8af65
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.