Golden Mist
#d4c990
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
#d4c990
RGB
212, 201, 144
OKLCh
83.1% 0.075 98.5°
CIELAB (D50)
80.9, -2.3, 30.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.5; on black, Lc -73.4. 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 12.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827741 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
#d4c990
protanopia
#caca90 · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#cccc90 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#cfcf42 · ΔE00 12.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoyal Goblet at ΔE00 0.746: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Royal GobletΔE00 0.746 · #d4ca8e
- Dusty YellowΔE00 1.398 · #cfc88f
- Artichoke MistΔE00 1.522 · #d9ca93
- Green Apple MartiniΔE00 1.968 · #d2c785
- Asparagus YellowΔE00 1.986 · #dac98e
- Tyrant SkullΔE00 2.045 · #cdc586
- Tahuna SandsΔE00 2.104 · #d8cc9b
- Winter HazelΔE00 2.182 · #d0c383
- Bongo SkinΔE00 2.248 · #dece96
- Vast EscapeΔE00 2.358 · #d2c595
- Sonoma ChardonnayΔE00 2.426 · #ddcb91
- Hearts of PalmΔE00 2.512 · #cfc291
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.