Pirate’s Hook
#b08f42
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b08f42
RGB
176, 143, 66
OKLCh
66.5% 0.103 86.0°
CIELAB (D50)
61.4, 6.4, 44.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.4; on black, Lc -44.3. 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 10.6 and 10.7 and 12.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.06:1 — large text only
Black text
6.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#927221 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
#b08f42
protanopia
#939342 · ΔE00 10.6
deuteranopia
#9a9a40 · ΔE00 10.7
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 12.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVenetian Gold at ΔE00 0.802: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Venetian GoldΔE00 0.802 · #b39142
- TurmericΔE00 1.075 · #ae9041
- Plaguelands BeigeΔE00 1.315 · #ab8d44
- Luxor GoldΔE00 1.322 · #ab8d3f
- AlpineΔE00 1.642 · #ad8a3b
- Amber GreenΔE00 1.765 · #ac8a41
- Mineral UmberΔE00 2.287 · #b18b32
- HoneyΔE00 2.3 · #ae8934
- Spring BranchΔE00 2.381 · #a98c37
- RotiΔE00 2.464 · #b69642
- Epidote Olvene OreΔE00 2.552 · #ab924b
- Golden YearsΔE00 2.554 · #aa8d4d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.