Gold Digger
#d1b075
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d1b075
RGB
209, 176, 117
OKLCh
77.3% 0.086 81.4°
CIELAB (D50)
73.8, 6.6, 34.9
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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.2; on black, Lc -62.1. 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 10.9 and 11.0 and 17.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.06:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#917238 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
#d1b075
protanopia
#b4b475 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#baba74 · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#c1c100 · ΔE00 17.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLet It Ring at ΔE00 0.576: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Let It RingΔE00 0.576 · #cfae74
- BeachwalkΔE00 0.98 · #d2b17a
- Tarnished TrumpetΔE00 1.015 · #d5b176
- New WheatΔE00 1.091 · #d2af6f
- Egyptian TempleΔE00 1.103 · #d6b378
- PuttyΔE00 1.248 · #cdae70
- Romanesque GoldΔE00 1.415 · #d0af7a
- Dried ChamomileΔE00 1.42 · #d1b375
- Indonesian RattanΔE00 1.445 · #d1b272
- Earthen SiennaΔE00 1.489 · #d1ac71
- FawnΔE00 1.589 · #cfaf7b
- SigmariteΔE00 1.642 · #caad76
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.