The Weight of Gold
#cdbb63
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cdbb63
RGB
205, 187, 99
OKLCh
78.9% 0.111 98.0°
CIELAB (D50)
76.0, -1.7, 46.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.9; on black, Lc -65.6. 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 5.3 and 5.3 and 9.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.93:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#887614 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
#cdbb63
protanopia
#bdbd63 · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#c0c062 · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#c4c400 · ΔE00 9.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemon Lime Mojito at ΔE00 0.472: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lemon Lime MojitoΔE00 0.472 · #cbba61
- Almond PuffΔE00 1.144 · #c8b960
- Baby FrogΔE00 1.276 · #c8ba63
- Mustard OilΔE00 1.984 · #d5bd66
- TachaΔE00 2.069 · #d2b960
- Limón FrescoΔE00 2.145 · #cebc55
- Vegas GoldΔE00 2.219 · #c5b358
- MorayΔE00 2.224 · #c8bd6a
- Secret SafariΔE00 2.234 · #c6bb68
- Tarpon GreenΔE00 2.631 · #c1b55c
- TegreenΔE00 2.68 · #c1b65f
- Banh Bot Loc DumplingΔE00 2.836 · #d2b762
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.