Harvest Gold
#eab76a
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#eab76a
RGB
234, 183, 106
OKLCh
81.0% 0.112 76.4°
CIELAB (D50)
78.0, 12.6, 46.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.1; on black, Lc -68.5. 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 15.3 and 15.7 and 19.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.83:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9d6e18 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
#eab76a
protanopia
#bebe6a · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#c8c867 · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#d2d200 · ΔE00 19.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYellow Varnish at ΔE00 0.732: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Yellow VarnishΔE00 0.732 · #eab565
- Pineapple CakeΔE00 0.993 · #edbb6e
- California ChamoisΔE00 1.02 · #e6b76c
- Olden AmberΔE00 1.178 · #eeb76b
- Buff YellowΔE00 1.281 · #f0b967
- BuzzworthyΔE00 1.433 · #e6b261
- NatroliteΔE00 1.46 · #ebbc71
- Gilded AgeΔE00 1.563 · #e4b46e
- Salted CaramelΔE00 1.597 · #ebb367
- Flaming JuneΔE00 1.744 · #eebb66
- BrassoΔE00 1.758 · #f3bc6b
- Fire CoralΔE00 1.783 · #e3b46f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.