HueComb

Stone Guardians

#caba97

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

#caba97

RGB

202, 186, 151

OKLCh

79.3% 0.051 86.3°

CIELAB (D50)

76.2, 1.8, 20.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 31% 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 7.0 and 7.1 and 18.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.91:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847554 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

#caba97

protanopia

#bcbc97 · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#bfbf97 · ΔE00 7.1

tritanopia

#c2c219 · ΔE00 18.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIntimate Journal at ΔE00 0.687: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Intimate JournalΔE00 0.687 · #ccbb99
  • Dry EarthΔE00 1.063 · #c6b693
  • HayloftΔE00 1.195 · #cdba96
  • Veranda HillsΔE00 1.205 · #ccb994
  • Withered MossΔE00 1.281 · #c5b692
  • Tumbling TumbleweedΔE00 1.318 · #cebf9c
  • SandwashedΔE00 1.54 · #cbbe9c
  • Spiced VinegarΔE00 1.605 · #cdba99
  • Final StrawΔE00 1.634 · #d0bf9e
  • Bungalow TaupeΔE00 1.686 · #cebe9f
  • Balsa StoneΔE00 1.735 · #cbbb92
  • Tumblin’ TumbleweedΔE00 1.812 · #cdbb9c

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