Windy Meadow
#b0a676
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
#b0a676
RGB
176, 166, 118
OKLCh
72.2% 0.066 97.8°
CIELAB (D50)
68.1, -1.7, 26.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.2; on black, Lc -53.8. 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 12.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.45:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817749 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
#b0a676
protanopia
#a7a776 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#a9a976 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#abab29 · ΔE00 12.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGeek Chic at ΔE00 0.246: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Geek ChicΔE00 0.246 · #b0a677
- Bamboo ForestΔE00 1.063 · #b1a979
- Throw RugΔE00 1.27 · #ada274
- Crack WillowΔE00 1.27 · #b0a470
- Even GrowthΔE00 1.287 · #b2aa7a
- Autumn SageΔE00 1.623 · #aea26e
- Green Bean CasseroleΔE00 1.728 · #b0a36e
- Gold InfusionΔE00 1.794 · #b1a57b
- Natchez MossΔE00 1.851 · #b1a76f
- Fond of FrondsΔE00 1.869 · #aba379
- Thimbleberry LeafΔE00 1.913 · #afa97d
- Zucchini GardenΔE00 1.942 · #afa170
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.