HueComb

Lush

#c5bda0

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

#c5bda0

RGB

197, 189, 160

OKLCh

79.7% 0.041 94.4°

CIELAB (D50)

76.7, -0.6, 15.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 25% 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 35.7; on black, Lc -66.8. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.88:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e775c 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

#c5bda0

protanopia

#bebea0 · ΔE00 3.8

deuteranopia

#bfbfa0 · ΔE00 3.9

tritanopia

#c1c17c · ΔE00 9.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGood to Grow at ΔE00 1.169: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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