Haystack
#cfac47
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cfac47
RGB
207, 172, 71
OKLCh
75.7% 0.125 89.8°
CIELAB (D50)
72.1, 5.1, 55.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.7; on black, Lc -59.5. 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 10.2 and 10.2 and 11.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#927300 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
#cfac47
protanopia
#b0b047 · ΔE00 10.2
deuteranopia
#b7b744 · ΔE00 10.2
tritanopia
#bebe00 · ΔE00 11.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYellow Lupine at ΔE00 1.219: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Yellow LupineΔE00 1.219 · #ccaa4d
- Ceylon YellowΔE00 1.402 · #d4ae40
- AniseedΔE00 1.49 · #cda741
- GrandioseΔE00 1.658 · #caa84c
- Gooseberry YellowΔE00 1.845 · #c7a94a
- Brassed OffΔE00 1.846 · #cfa743
- Golden Age GiltΔE00 2.112 · #cea644
- Solar RelicΔE00 2.188 · #d2ab51
- Aru ResshaΔE00 2.23 · #cca537
- Marina Bay SandsΔE00 2.315 · #d3af37
- Metallic GoldΔE00 2.322 · #d4af37
- Golden BlondΔE00 2.349 · #ccaa55
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.