HueComb

Moth

#cbc1a2

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#cbc1a2

RGB

203, 193, 162

OKLCh

81.1% 0.043 92.3°

CIELAB (D50)

78.3, -0.1, 17.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 26% 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 33.3; on black, Lc -69.3. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.80:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.69:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.69:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80765a 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

#cbc1a2

protanopia

#c2c2a2 · ΔE00 4.6

deuteranopia

#c4c4a2 · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#c6c672 · ΔE00 11.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeasoned Salt at ΔE00 1.011: 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.