HueComb

Arrowwood

#b3861e

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

Hex

#b3861e

RGB

179, 134, 30

OKLCh

64.7% 0.124 82.7°

CIELAB (D50)

59.2, 11.1, 57.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.3; on black, Lc -41.4. 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 13.8 and 13.9 and 14.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.31:1 — large text only

Black text

6.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#997000 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b3861e

protanopia

#8c8c1f · ΔE00 13.8

deuteranopia

#959516 · ΔE00 13.9

tritanopia

#9e9e00 · ΔE00 14.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUniversity of California Gold at ΔE00 1.518: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • University of California GoldΔE00 1.518 · #b78727
  • Letter JacketΔE00 1.631 · #b8860b
  • Old TrailΔE00 2.034 · #bb8811
  • Fig Mustard YellowΔE00 2.193 · #bb8610
  • Loden YellowΔE00 2.275 · #b68b13
  • Kenyan SandΔE00 2.423 · #bb8800
  • Mineral UmberΔE00 2.523 · #b18b32
  • HoneyΔE00 2.772 · #ae8934
  • Murder MustardΔE00 2.806 · #ac7e04
  • Mayan GoldΔE00 2.832 · #b68c37
  • Chestnut GoldΔE00 2.923 · #ab8508
  • Brass YellowΔE00 2.957 · #b58735

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