Sunken Treasure
#cccf86
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#cccf86
RGB
204, 207, 134
OKLCh
83.5% 0.094 110.3°
CIELAB (D50)
81.6, -9.3, 36.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.3; on black, Lc -74.6. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797a33 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
#cccf86
protanopia
#cfcf86 · ΔE00 0.9
deuteranopia
#cece86 · ΔE00 0.9
tritanopia
#cece95 · ΔE00 3.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeco at ΔE00 0.733: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- DecoΔE00 0.733 · #cccf82
- ChimesΔE00 1.492 · #c7ca86
- Lime Sorbet GreenΔE00 1.719 · #c6cd7d
- Zucchini NoodlesΔE00 1.8 · #c8d07f
- Celery GreenΔE00 1.958 · #c5cc7b
- Guacamole AmbrosiaΔE00 1.977 · #d2d392
- Soft CeleryΔE00 2.055 · #c4cd87
- Golden DeliciousΔE00 2.189 · #d2d88f
- Calamansi GreenΔE00 2.219 · #c4cc7a
- Soda PopΔE00 2.236 · #c3c67e
- Mellow GreenΔE00 2.272 · #d5d593
- Green GeckoΔE00 2.336 · #cdd47f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.