Faint Gold
#b59410
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b59410
RGB
181, 148, 16
OKLCh
67.8% 0.135 92.4°
CIELAB (D50)
63.0, 4.5, 63.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% 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 55.3; on black, Lc -46.5. 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 9.5 and 9.5 and 10.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.91:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7400 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b59410
protanopia
#989812 · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#9f9f05 · ΔE00 9.5
tritanopia
#a5a500 · ΔE00 10.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMain Mast Gold at ΔE00 0.767: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Main Mast GoldΔE00 0.767 · #b79400
- SaharaΔE00 1.664 · #b79826
- Kalliene YellowΔE00 1.727 · #b59808
- Hidden TribeΔE00 1.891 · #bb9900
- Cobra LeatherΔE00 1.898 · #b08e08
- ManureΔE00 1.912 · #ad900d
- Titanite YellowΔE00 2.001 · #ad8f0f
- Banana PureeΔE00 2.022 · #b29705
- Sunken GoldΔE00 2.105 · #b29700
- Buddha GoldΔE00 2.164 · #bc9b1b
- PerennialΔE00 2.335 · #bc9b08
- Bark SawdustΔE00 2.427 · #ab9004
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.