Bamboo Forest
#b1a979
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
#b1a979
RGB
177, 169, 121
OKLCh
73.0% 0.066 99.8°
CIELAB (D50)
69.0, -2.6, 25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.9; on black, Lc -55.1. 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 9.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7749 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
#b1a979
protanopia
#aaaa79 · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#abab79 · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#adad46 · ΔE00 9.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEven Growth at ΔE00 0.29: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Even GrowthΔE00 0.29 · #b2aa7a
- Windy MeadowΔE00 1.063 · #b0a676
- Geek ChicΔE00 1.092 · #b0a677
- Thimbleberry LeafΔE00 1.227 · #afa97d
- Water ReedΔE00 1.741 · #b0ab80
- Natchez MossΔE00 2.045 · #b1a76f
- Olive TreeΔE00 2.081 · #aba77c
- Crack WillowΔE00 2.131 · #b0a470
- Fond of FrondsΔE00 2.239 · #aba379
- Throw RugΔE00 2.244 · #ada274
- Tarragon TeaseΔE00 2.295 · #b4ac84
- SediaΔE00 2.344 · #b0a67e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.