Desert
#ccad60
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ccad60
RGB
204, 173, 96
OKLCh
75.9% 0.103 88.0°
CIELAB (D50)
72.3, 4.6, 43.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.4; on black, Lc -59.8. 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 9.6 and 9.7 and 13.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#907321 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
#ccad60
protanopia
#b1b160 · ΔE00 9.6
deuteranopia
#b7b75e · ΔE00 9.7
tritanopia
#bdbd00 · ΔE00 13.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFiltered Rays at ΔE00 0.968: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Filtered RaysΔE00 0.968 · #d0b064
- Hay WainΔE00 1.159 · #cdad59
- LaserΔE00 1.361 · #c6a95e
- Glorious GoldΔE00 1.546 · #cba956
- Golden BlondΔE00 1.603 · #ccaa55
- Hedgehog Cactus Yellow GreenΔE00 1.861 · #c4aa5e
- Dylan VelvetΔE00 2.025 · #d5b266
- Tanami DesertΔE00 2.026 · #d0b25c
- Sell GoldΔE00 2.088 · #d4ae5e
- Ginger CrunchΔE00 2.307 · #ceaa64
- Canadian MapleΔE00 2.325 · #cab266
- TanΔE00 2.408 · #d1b26f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.