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#bea932
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bea932
RGB
190, 169, 50
OKLCh
73.2% 0.135 98.9°
CIELAB (D50)
69.5, -1.5, 60.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 46.3; on black, Lc -55.7. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.9 and 5.9 and 6.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.91:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.91:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#887700 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
#bea932
protanopia
#acac32 · ΔE00 5.9
deuteranopia
#afaf30 · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 6.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreenfinch at ΔE00 0.937: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GreenfinchΔE00 0.937 · #bda928
- Pickle JuiceΔE00 1.251 · #bba528
- Oil YellowΔE00 1.518 · #c2ab3f
- Sharp LimeΔE00 1.697 · #c0ad28
- CitronetteΔE00 1.776 · #c4aa27
- Green FlavourΔE00 1.816 · #bbaa22
- Earls GreenΔE00 1.822 · #b8a722
- Grassy OchreΔE00 2.011 · #b8a336
- Hippie TrailΔE00 2.146 · #c6aa2b
- Brass KnuckleΔE00 2.463 · #b9a70f
- Hep GreenΔE00 2.593 · #c4b146
- Pollen StormΔE00 2.616 · #b8a02a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.