Court-Bouillon
#cecb97
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
#cecb97
RGB
206, 203, 151
OKLCh
83.2% 0.069 105.0°
CIELAB (D50)
81.0, -5.0, 26.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 29.2; on black, Lc -73.6. 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
1.66:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7948 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
#cecb97
protanopia
#cbcb97 · ΔE00 1.0
deuteranopia
#cccc97 · ΔE00 1.0
tritanopia
#cccc89 · ΔE00 3.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTidal Green at ΔE00 0.509: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tidal GreenΔE00 0.509 · #cdca98
- Vegetarian VultureΔE00 1.071 · #cccc99
- Corn Husk GreenΔE00 1.128 · #cecd95
- Creamy SpinaciΔE00 1.441 · #cac990
- Yerba MateΔE00 1.774 · #c8c48f
- Dusty YellowΔE00 1.875 · #cfc88f
- Paris MintΔE00 1.947 · #c9c79a
- ShagreenΔE00 2.007 · #cbc99d
- Anjou PearΔE00 2.18 · #cdca9f
- Wasabi ZingΔE00 2.284 · #d2cca0
- Sawgrass CottageΔE00 2.581 · #d3cda2
- Lime PeelΔE00 2.613 · #c6c191
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.