Retro Vibe
#cb9711
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cb9711
RGB
203, 151, 17
OKLCh
70.7% 0.142 83.2°
CIELAB (D50)
66.1, 12.6, 67.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.1; on black, Lc -50.8. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 14.8 and 14.8 and 15.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.97:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.97:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#997000 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cb9711
protanopia
#9e9e14 · ΔE00 14.8
deuteranopia
#a8a800 · ΔE00 14.8
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 15.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAustralien at ΔE00 0.655: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AustralienΔE00 0.655 · #cc9911
- Duck SauceΔE00 1.041 · #cc9922
- Vivid AmberΔE00 1.101 · #cc9900
- LeopardΔE00 1.182 · #d09800
- Elysium GoldΔE00 1.255 · #ce9500
- CitronneΔE00 1.906 · #cd9c2b
- Saffron YellowΔE00 2.192 · #d09b2c
- Tawny OliveΔE00 2.397 · #c4962c
- Roman GoldΔE00 2.622 · #d19b2f
- Herald’s TrumpetΔE00 2.634 · #ce9f2f
- Gomashio YellowΔE00 2.708 · #cc9933
- Moutarde de BénichonΔE00 2.791 · #bf9005
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.