Goldbricker
#c5a049
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c5a049
RGB
197, 160, 73
OKLCh
72.3% 0.114 86.1°
CIELAB (D50)
68.0, 7.0, 49.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.5; on black, Lc -53.5. 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 11.3 and 11.4 and 13.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#95710b 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
#c5a049
protanopia
#a5a549 · ΔE00 11.3
deuteranopia
#acac46 · ΔE00 11.4
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 13.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Field at ΔE00 0.758: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Golden FieldΔE00 0.758 · #c39e44
- Spontaneous SprigΔE00 0.959 · #c2a048
- SauterneΔE00 1.382 · #c5a253
- Tupelo HoneyΔE00 1.48 · #c0a04d
- UnderbrushΔE00 1.703 · #be9e48
- Golden TouchΔE00 1.733 · #caa444
- Autumn Apple YellowΔE00 1.778 · #cda449
- GoldieΔE00 1.812 · #c89d3f
- Golden SheafΔE00 1.816 · #cca24d
- Golden AvocadoΔE00 1.987 · #cda64a
- Brown RumΔE00 2.412 · #bc9b4e
- Golden MeanΔE00 2.434 · #c49b35
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.