HueComb

Beach Dune

#c6bb9c

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

#c6bb9c

RGB

198, 187, 156

OKLCh

79.3% 0.044 90.8°

CIELAB (D50)

76.2, 0.3, 17.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 27% 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 36.5; 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 5.2 and 13.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.91:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807659 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

#c6bb9c

protanopia

#bcbc9c · ΔE00 5.1

deuteranopia

#bebe9c · ΔE00 5.2

tritanopia

#c1c164 · ΔE00 13.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDistant Valley at ΔE00 1.206: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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