HueComb

Bangalore

#bbaa88

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

#bbaa88

RGB

187, 170, 136

OKLCh

74.4% 0.051 84.5°

CIELAB (D50)

70.4, 2.4, 20.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 only 33% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.9; on black, Lc -57.2. 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 7.7 and 7.8 and 18.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.22:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.22:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#857555 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bbaa88

protanopia

#acac88 · ΔE00 7.7

deuteranopia

#afaf87 · ΔE00 7.8

tritanopia

#b3b300 · ΔE00 18.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Olive Pit at ΔE00 1.018: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Green Olive PitΔE00 1.018 · #bdaa89
  • Bamboo ScreenΔE00 1.023 · #bcab8c
  • PavlovaΔE00 1.201 · #baab87
  • Olive GoldΔE00 1.229 · #bfac8b
  • Oat FieldΔE00 1.265 · #c0ad89
  • Feldspar GreyΔE00 1.266 · #bca885
  • Sepia ToneΔE00 1.337 · #b8a88a
  • Faded LetterΔE00 1.371 · #bfac86
  • Country CorkΔE00 1.65 · #b8a584
  • Barbados BeigeΔE00 1.728 · #b8a983
  • Desert CamelΔE00 1.877 · #c2ae88
  • Flaxen FieldΔE00 1.916 · #bba684

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