Garden of Earthly Delights
#a09f5b
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a09f5b
RGB
160, 159, 91
OKLCh
68.8% 0.090 107.8°
CIELAB (D50)
64.4, -7.1, 35.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.3; on black, Lc -48.6. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
2.76:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7a36 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
#a09f5b
protanopia
#9f9f5b · ΔE00 0.3
deuteranopia
#9f9f5b · ΔE00 0.3
tritanopia
#9f9f55 · ΔE00 1.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGothic Revival Green at ΔE00 1.077: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gothic Revival GreenΔE00 1.077 · #a0a160
- StemΔE00 1.995 · #9a9959
- RickrackΔE00 2.095 · #a6a660
- Sweet PeaΔE00 2.159 · #9ba15c
- Mediaeval SulphurΔE00 2.298 · #a79f5c
- Wholemeal CookieΔE00 2.509 · #aaa662
- Lazy LizardΔE00 2.583 · #9c9c4b
- Elf SlippersΔE00 2.757 · #a6a865
- Organic GardenΔE00 3.096 · #aba964
- Ancient MazeΔE00 3.102 · #959651
- Always AppleΔE00 3.141 · #a0a667
- Reed GreenΔE00 3.247 · #a1a14a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.