HueComb

Faded Letter

#bfac86

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

#bfac86

RGB

191, 172, 134

OKLCh

75.1% 0.056 84.4°

CIELAB (D50)

71.3, 2.8, 22.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 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 36% 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 43.7; on black, Lc -58.4. 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 8.0 and 8.1 and 18.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#877550 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

#bfac86

protanopia

#aeae86 · ΔE00 8.0

deuteranopia

#b2b285 · ΔE00 8.1

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 18.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOat Field at ΔE00 0.677: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Oat FieldΔE00 0.677 · #c0ad89
  • Horned FrogΔE00 0.726 · #c2ae87
  • Desert CamelΔE00 0.735 · #c2ae88
  • Owl Manner MaltΔE00 1.305 · #c0af87
  • BangaloreΔE00 1.371 · #bbaa88
  • Green GoldΔE00 1.442 · #c5b088
  • Malt ShakeΔE00 1.473 · #bba87f
  • HandwovenΔE00 1.473 · #bfa984
  • Feldspar GreyΔE00 1.506 · #bca885
  • Olive GoldΔE00 1.537 · #bfac8b
  • Green Olive PitΔE00 1.603 · #bdaa89
  • PavlovaΔE00 1.657 · #baab87

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