Vegas Gold
#c5b358
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c5b358
RGB
197, 179, 88
OKLCh
76.3% 0.114 98.3°
CIELAB (D50)
73.1, -1.8, 48.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.2; on black, Lc -61.0. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 5.3 and 8.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.11:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#88760c 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
#c5b358
protanopia
#b5b558 · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#b9b957 · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#bcbc00 · ΔE00 8.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Marsh at ΔE00 1.589: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spring MarshΔE00 1.589 · #c0b05d
- Almond PuffΔE00 1.748 · #c8b960
- Tarpon GreenΔE00 1.821 · #c1b55c
- Mack CreekΔE00 1.842 · #bfae5b
- Lemon Lime MojitoΔE00 1.893 · #cbba61
- Baby FrogΔE00 2.165 · #c8ba63
- TegreenΔE00 2.218 · #c1b65f
- The Weight of GoldΔE00 2.219 · #cdbb63
- Hep GreenΔE00 2.247 · #c4b146
- HollywoodΔE00 2.321 · #c7af4a
- Star Fruit Yellow GreenΔE00 2.607 · #beaa4a
- Gilded PestoΔE00 2.699 · #bbaf5e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.