HueComb

Fiji Sands

#d8caa9

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

#d8caa9

RGB

216, 202, 169

OKLCh

84.2% 0.047 87.8°

CIELAB (D50)

81.9, 1.2, 18.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 27% 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 27.9; on black, Lc -75.1. 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 6.3 and 6.4 and 15.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.62:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827657 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

#d8caa9

protanopia

#cccca9 · ΔE00 6.3

deuteranopia

#cecea9 · ΔE00 6.4

tritanopia

#d1d15c · ΔE00 15.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaked Bread at ΔE00 0.525: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Baked BreadΔE00 0.525 · #dacba9
  • Cotswold DillΔE00 0.81 · #dbcdad
  • Thatched CottageΔE00 0.815 · #d6c7a6
  • Glamorgan SausageΔE00 0.91 · #dacba7
  • Dance With the WindΔE00 0.945 · #d7cbac
  • Soft SuedeΔE00 0.952 · #d8cbad
  • Spa SangriaΔE00 0.954 · #d7c9a5
  • Gabriel’s LightΔE00 1 · #dacca8
  • Luscious LatteΔE00 1.013 · #d7c8a4
  • Sweet DoughΔE00 1.081 · #dbcbab
  • Lovely LinenΔE00 1.083 · #dbceac
  • Champagne BubblesΔE00 1.105 · #ddcead

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