HueComb

Honey

#ae8934

A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ae8934

RGB

174, 137, 52

OKLCh

64.9% 0.111 84.8°

CIELAB (D50)

59.5, 8.0, 49.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.9; on black, Lc -41.9. 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 11.8 and 11.9 and 13.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.27:1 — large text only

Black text

6.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#957114 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

#ae8934

protanopia

#8e8e35 · ΔE00 11.8

deuteranopia

#959531 · ΔE00 11.9

tritanopia

#9d9d00 · ΔE00 13.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMineral Umber at ΔE00 0.922: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.