HueComb

Ancestral Gold

#ddcda6

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

#ddcda6

RGB

221, 205, 166

OKLCh

85.2% 0.055 88.4°

CIELAB (D50)

83.0, 1.3, 21.6

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 31% 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 26.1; on black, Lc -77.0. 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 6.6 and 6.6 and 17.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.57:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847551 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

#ddcda6

protanopia

#cfcfa6 · ΔE00 6.6

deuteranopia

#d2d2a6 · ΔE00 6.6

tritanopia

#d5d53a · ΔE00 17.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStonebread at ΔE00 0.445: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • StonebreadΔE00 0.445 · #ddcea7
  • Shui Jiao DumplingΔE00 0.621 · #dccca3
  • Glamorgan SausageΔE00 0.969 · #dacba7
  • Gabriel’s LightΔE00 1.051 · #dacca8
  • FoothillsΔE00 1.097 · #e1cfa5
  • Spa SangriaΔE00 1.432 · #d7c9a5
  • Baked BreadΔE00 1.469 · #dacba9
  • Luscious LatteΔE00 1.474 · #d7c8a4
  • Fabulous FortiesΔE00 1.475 · #ddcdab
  • Organic BambooΔE00 1.496 · #e1cda4
  • Gratin DauphinoisΔE00 1.508 · #e0d2a9
  • Ground GingerΔE00 1.51 · #d9ca9f

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