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#ccbb99

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

#ccbb99

RGB

204, 187, 153

OKLCh

79.8% 0.050 84.5°

CIELAB (D50)

76.7, 2.3, 19.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 30% 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 35.8; on black, Lc -66.7. 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 7.6 and 7.7 and 19.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.89:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.14:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.14:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#857555 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

#ccbb99

protanopia

#bdbd99 · ΔE00 7.6

deuteranopia

#c0c098 · ΔE00 7.7

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 19.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStone Guardians at ΔE00 0.687: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Stone GuardiansΔE00 0.687 · #caba97
  • HayloftΔE00 0.877 · #cdba96
  • Spiced VinegarΔE00 1.01 · #cdba99
  • Final StrawΔE00 1.1 · #d0bf9e
  • Veranda HillsΔE00 1.118 · #ccb994
  • Tumblin’ TumbleweedΔE00 1.187 · #cdbb9c
  • Bungalow TaupeΔE00 1.199 · #cebe9f
  • Tumbling TumbleweedΔE00 1.349 · #cebf9c
  • Real SimpleΔE00 1.406 · #ccb896
  • Dry EarthΔE00 1.521 · #c6b693
  • Crewel TanΔE00 1.553 · #cbb99b
  • Bird’s NestΔE00 1.622 · #cfbb9b

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