Champagne Gold
#e8d6b3
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
#e8d6b3
RGB
232, 214, 179
OKLCh
88.2% 0.050 83.9°
CIELAB (D50)
86.5, 2.4, 19.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 42 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 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.6; on black, Lc -82.8. 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 7.8 and 7.9 and 19.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.43:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.70:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.70:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#857555 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
#e8d6b3
protanopia
#d8d8b3 · ΔE00 7.8
deuteranopia
#dbdbb2 · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#dfdf3c · ΔE00 19.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSensible Hue at ΔE00 0.492: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sensible HueΔE00 0.492 · #ead7b4
- Duck TailΔE00 0.599 · #e9d6b1
- Golden SyrupΔE00 0.759 · #ebd8b3
- Russeau GoldΔE00 0.83 · #e7d6b1
- Convivial YellowΔE00 0.847 · #e9d6b0
- Bisque TanΔE00 1.049 · #e5d2b0
- Journal WhiteΔE00 1.056 · #e6d3b2
- Sunning DeckΔE00 1.097 · #e8d7b1
- Cinnamon MilkΔE00 1.173 · #ebdab5
- Banana CrepeΔE00 1.178 · #e7d3ad
- Rousseau GoldΔE00 1.182 · #ead6af
- Light BlondΔE00 1.272 · #e8d3af
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.