HueComb

Brilliant Gold

#f0dbaa

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

#f0dbaa

RGB

240, 219, 170

OKLCh

89.7% 0.068 87.5°

CIELAB (D50)

88.3, 2.2, 27.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 33 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.7; on black, Lc -85.9. 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 7.3 and 7.4 and 18.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.42:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.42:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887547 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

#f0dbaa

protanopia

#ddddaa · ΔE00 7.3

deuteranopia

#e1e1a9 · ΔE00 7.4

tritanopia

#e6e600 · ΔE00 18.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBleached Bone at ΔE00 0.53: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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