Another One Bites the Dust

#c7bba4

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

#c7bba4

RGB

199, 187, 164

OKLCh

79.6% 0.034 83.7°

CIELAB (D50)

76.4, 1.6, 13.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

34 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 21% 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 36.1; on black, Lc -66.4. 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 6.1 and 6.3 and 14.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.90:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#817660 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

#c7bba4

protanopia

#bcbca4 · ΔE00 6.1

deuteranopia

#bfbfa4 · ΔE00 6.3

tritanopia

#c1c16b · ΔE00 14.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRelaxed Khaki at ΔE00 0.498: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Relaxed KhakiΔE00 0.498 · #c8bba3
Dusty TrailΔE00 0.907 · #c9bba3
Elk AntlerΔE00 0.967 · #cabca4
Winding PathΔE00 0.999 · #c6bba2
CourtyardΔE00 1.081 · #c8bda4
Seagull WailΔE00 1.122 · #c7bda8
Land Rush BoneΔE00 1.173 · #c9bba1
Sheepskin RugΔE00 1.232 · #cbbfa6
Coral ReefΔE00 1.32 · #c7bca2
Khaki ShellΔE00 1.332 · #c9beaa
Helen of TroyΔE00 1.335 · #c3b89f
Pale BambooΔE00 1.357 · #c9bfa8

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