HueComb

Cardamom

#aaaa77

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#aaaa77

RGB

170, 170, 119

OKLCh

72.5% 0.069 108.0°

CIELAB (D50)

68.7, -6.1, 26.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.4; on black, Lc -54.6. 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

2.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.73:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.73:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7948 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

#aaaa77

protanopia

#aaaa77 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#aaaa77 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#aaaa77 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStuffed Olive at ΔE00 1.047: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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