HueComb

Forgotten Tusk

#c4bba5

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

#c4bba5

RGB

196, 187, 165

OKLCh

79.3% 0.032 88.4°

CIELAB (D50)

76.2, 0.5, 12.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 38 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 20% 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 36.4; on black, Lc -66.0. 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 11.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.91:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e7662 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c4bba5

protanopia

#bcbca5 · ΔE00 4.6

deuteranopia

#bebea5 · ΔE00 4.8

tritanopia

#c0c07f · ΔE00 11.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJungle Khaki at ΔE00 0.844: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Jungle KhakiΔE00 0.844 · #c7bea7
  • Kiln ClayΔE00 0.922 · #c6bea9
  • Seagull WailΔE00 0.929 · #c7bda8
  • Celery PowderΔE00 1.069 · #c5bda5
  • Dancing DolphinΔE00 1.08 · #c4baa1
  • Pale BambooΔE00 1.195 · #c9bfa8
  • Winding PathΔE00 1.226 · #c6bba2
  • HideawayΔE00 1.345 · #c8c0aa
  • CourtyardΔE00 1.349 · #c8bda4
  • Antique KilimΔE00 1.385 · #c5bba8
  • Another One Bites the DustΔE00 1.422 · #c7bba4
  • Helen of TroyΔE00 1.438 · #c3b89f

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.