Honeymoon
#d7bb80
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d7bb80
RGB
215, 187, 128
OKLCh
80.3% 0.083 85.2°
CIELAB (D50)
77.3, 4.4, 33.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.0; on black, Lc -67.6. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.2 and 9.3 and 16.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.86:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d733a 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
#d7bb80
protanopia
#bebe80 · ΔE00 9.2
deuteranopia
#c4c47f · ΔE00 9.3
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 16.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVermicelles at ΔE00 0.786: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- VermicellesΔE00 0.786 · #dabe82
- Brown RiceΔE00 0.859 · #dabd84
- JojobaΔE00 1.16 · #d9bd7d
- Independent GoldΔE00 1.42 · #d2ba83
- Honey TeaΔE00 1.547 · #d8be89
- Sinking SandΔE00 1.744 · #d8b778
- Gold TintΔE00 1.923 · #dec283
- SunspillΔE00 1.94 · #ddc283
- ChalkyΔE00 2.134 · #dfc281
- Dried ChamomileΔE00 2.18 · #d1b375
- TahiniΔE00 2.234 · #ddbb77
- Sahara GravelΔE00 2.264 · #dfc08a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.