Backroom Ember
#a19250
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a19250
RGB
161, 146, 80
OKLCh
65.8% 0.088 96.9°
CIELAB (D50)
60.8, -0.9, 36.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.1; on black, Lc -43.6. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.11:1 — large text only
Black text
6.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#857634 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
#a19250
protanopia
#949450 · ΔE00 5.0
deuteranopia
#97974f · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#9a9a00 · ΔE00 9.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOff the Grid at ΔE00 1.187: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Off the GridΔE00 1.187 · #9f9049
- Tupelo TreeΔE00 1.553 · #9c9152
- Green OchreΔE00 1.869 · #9f8f55
- Desert YellowΔE00 1.915 · #a29259
- Faded KhakiΔE00 2.061 · #a5975b
- Salted CapersΔE00 2.095 · #a69151
- DijonnaiseΔE00 2.153 · #9b8f55
- Spring MossΔE00 2.163 · #a99757
- Cypress GreenΔE00 2.218 · #9e8f57
- GremlinΔE00 2.257 · #a79954
- Burnished GoldΔE00 2.349 · #aa9855
- 18th Century GreenΔE00 2.461 · #a59344
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.