Luxurious
#d4b75d
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d4b75d
RGB
212, 183, 93
OKLCh
78.6% 0.115 91.8°
CIELAB (D50)
75.6, 2.8, 49.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.6; on black, Lc -64.8. 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 8.5 and 8.6 and 11.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.96:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#907406 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
#d4b75d
protanopia
#bbbb5d · ΔE00 8.5
deuteranopia
#c0c05b · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#c6c600 · ΔE00 11.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanh Bot Loc Dumpling at ΔE00 0.889: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Banh Bot Loc DumplingΔE00 0.889 · #d2b762
- Warm WoollenΔE00 0.901 · #d0b55a
- TachaΔE00 1.205 · #d2b960
- Tookie BirdΔE00 1.23 · #d6ba66
- Gold VeinΔE00 1.388 · #d6b956
- Tanami DesertΔE00 1.451 · #d0b25c
- Gold GleamΔE00 1.62 · #cfb352
- Strike It RichΔE00 1.738 · #d7b55f
- Wax WayΔE00 1.807 · #d3b667
- Misted YellowΔE00 1.849 · #dab965
- Golden BassΔE00 1.853 · #daba55
- Mustard OilΔE00 1.985 · #d5bd66
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.