HueComb

Castaway Beach

#d0c19f

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

#d0c19f

RGB

208, 193, 159

OKLCh

81.5% 0.049 87.0°

CIELAB (D50)

78.7, 1.5, 19.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 29% 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 32.8; on black, Lc -69.9. 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 6.7 and 6.8 and 17.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.78:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837556 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

#d0c19f

protanopia

#c3c39f · ΔE00 6.7

deuteranopia

#c6c69f · ΔE00 6.8

tritanopia

#c9c941 · ΔE00 17.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTumbling Tumbleweed at ΔE00 0.612: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Tumbling TumbleweedΔE00 0.612 · #cebf9c
  • Double Spanish WhiteΔE00 0.83 · #d2c3a3
  • Dakota TrailΔE00 1.069 · #d3c29d
  • Final StrawΔE00 1.08 · #d0bf9e
  • SandwashedΔE00 1.235 · #cbbe9c
  • Seasoned SaltΔE00 1.272 · #cec2a1
  • Bungalow TaupeΔE00 1.34 · #cebe9f
  • Champagne BeigeΔE00 1.35 · #d4c49e
  • Dad’s SlippersΔE00 1.431 · #d3c1a0
  • Aloof LamaΔE00 1.468 · #d6c5a0
  • Thatched CottageΔE00 1.556 · #d6c7a6
  • Welcome WalkwayΔE00 1.558 · #d4c6a7

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