Canadian Maple
#cab266
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cab266
RGB
202, 178, 102
OKLCh
76.8% 0.100 92.4°
CIELAB (D50)
73.5, 1.7, 41.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.7; on black, Lc -61.6. 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 7.4 and 7.5 and 12.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.09:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c7526 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
#cab266
protanopia
#b5b566 · ΔE00 7.4
deuteranopia
#b9b965 · ΔE00 7.5
tritanopia
#bebe00 · ΔE00 12.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSplit Pea Soup at ΔE00 0.449: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Split Pea SoupΔE00 0.449 · #c8b165
- Champagne GrapeΔE00 1.202 · #c5b067
- TrumpetΔE00 1.516 · #d1b669
- Wax WayΔE00 1.988 · #d3b667
- Sweet MustardΔE00 2.005 · #d1b871
- Autumn WanderingΔE00 2.11 · #cdb573
- Golden PagodaΔE00 2.133 · #d3b66c
- Banh Bot Loc DumplingΔE00 2.143 · #d2b762
- Hedgehog Cactus Yellow GreenΔE00 2.194 · #c4aa5e
- Tanami DesertΔE00 2.225 · #d0b25c
- DesertΔE00 2.325 · #ccad60
- Slender StemΔE00 2.403 · #c0aa60
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.