Salted Capers
#a69151
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a69151
RGB
166, 145, 81
OKLCh
66.1% 0.087 91.7°
CIELAB (D50)
61.0, 1.9, 36.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 57.8; on black, Lc -43.9. 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 7.1 and 7.1 and 11.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.09:1 — large text only
Black text
6.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8a7535 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
#a69151
protanopia
#949451 · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#989850 · ΔE00 7.1
tritanopia
#9c9c00 · ΔE00 11.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEpidote Olvene Ore at ΔE00 1.774: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Epidote Olvene OreΔE00 1.774 · #ab924b
- Spring MossΔE00 2.008 · #a99757
- Desert YellowΔE00 2.08 · #a29259
- Backroom EmberΔE00 2.095 · #a19250
- ObsessionΔE00 2.11 · #ae9550
- Green OchreΔE00 2.167 · #9f8f55
- Mossy RockΔE00 2.197 · #a9965d
- Burnished GoldΔE00 2.357 · #aa9855
- Golden GriffonΔE00 2.369 · #a99058
- Fallow DeerΔE00 2.609 · #9f8d57
- Cypress GreenΔE00 2.646 · #9e8f57
- Off the GridΔE00 2.652 · #9f9049
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.