Ginger Ale
#c9a86a
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c9a86a
RGB
201, 168, 106
OKLCh
74.7% 0.089 82.4°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, 6.6, 36.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.5; on black, Lc -57.6. 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 10.8 and 11.0 and 16.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#917234 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
#c9a86a
protanopia
#acac6a · ΔE00 10.8
deuteranopia
#b2b268 · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#b9b900 · ΔE00 16.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWild Mustard Seed at ΔE00 0.615: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wild Mustard SeedΔE00 0.615 · #caa867
- Flickering GoldΔE00 0.7 · #c6a668
- Taiwan GoldΔE00 1.46 · #c7aa71
- Gold TweedΔE00 1.573 · #c9ab73
- PuttyΔE00 1.671 · #cdae70
- Ginger CrunchΔE00 1.737 · #ceaa64
- Winter Pear BeigeΔE00 1.811 · #c7a55f
- More MapleΔE00 1.925 · #d0ab70
- Let It RingΔE00 1.937 · #cfae74
- Classic GoldΔE00 2.036 · #c9a367
- Caribou HerdΔE00 2.051 · #cda563
- Magic LampΔE00 2.078 · #c2a260
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.