Quince
#d4cb60
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d4cb60
RGB
212, 203, 96
OKLCh
82.8% 0.129 104.5°
CIELAB (D50)
80.8, -6.8, 53.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.6; on black, Lc -73.2. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.68:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.51:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.51:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827900 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
#d4cb60
protanopia
#cccc60 · ΔE00 2.4
deuteranopia
#cece5f · ΔE00 2.4
tritanopia
#d0d000 · ΔE00 6.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForce of Nature at ΔE00 1.235: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Force of NatureΔE00 1.235 · #d5ce69
- Lime TreeΔE00 1.511 · #d8d06b
- AcaciaΔE00 1.578 · #dbcd64
- Salsa VerdeΔE00 1.586 · #cec754
- CitronΔE00 1.739 · #d5c757
- Nervy HueΔE00 2.386 · #d7c65b
- GlutenΔE00 2.401 · #ddcc66
- SequestaΔE00 2.445 · #d4d158
- Chifle YellowΔE00 2.586 · #dbc963
- Advertisement GreenΔE00 2.728 · #d8cb4b
- Green SheenΔE00 2.788 · #d7c94a
- AnimeΔE00 2.793 · #ccc14d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.