Fool’s Gold
#cad175
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#cad175
RGB
202, 209, 117
OKLCh
83.5% 0.116 112.5°
CIELAB (D50)
81.8, -12.3, 44.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.0; on black, Lc -74.9. 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 7.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777c18 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
#cad175
protanopia
#d0d075 · ΔE00 1.9
deuteranopia
#cfcf75 · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#cece99 · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreenish Beige at ΔE00 0.751: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Greenish BeigeΔE00 0.751 · #c9d179
- Green GeckoΔE00 1.405 · #cdd47f
- Gentle DillΔE00 1.46 · #c3cc6e
- Daiquiri GreenΔE00 1.537 · #c6d26e
- Alligator AlleyΔE00 1.843 · #c5d17b
- Goody GumdropΔE00 1.901 · #ccd87a
- Zucchini NoodlesΔE00 1.906 · #c8d07f
- Calamansi GreenΔE00 2.066 · #c4cc7a
- Celery GreenΔE00 2.105 · #c5cc7b
- Lime Sorbet GreenΔE00 2.145 · #c6cd7d
- Soft FernΔE00 2.247 · #c7d368
- DecoΔE00 2.524 · #cccf82
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.