Gold Vein
#d6b956
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d6b956
RGB
214, 185, 86
OKLCh
79.2% 0.123 93.1°
CIELAB (D50)
76.3, 2.3, 53.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.6; on black, Lc -65.8. 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 8.3 and 8.4 and 10.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.92:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e7400 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
#d6b956
protanopia
#bdbd56 · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#c2c254 · ΔE00 8.4
tritanopia
#c8c800 · ΔE00 10.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Bass at ΔE00 0.933: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Golden BassΔE00 0.933 · #daba55
- LuxuriousΔE00 1.388 · #d4b75d
- Farm StrawΔE00 1.41 · #d5b54c
- Warm WoollenΔE00 1.62 · #d0b55a
- Gold GleamΔE00 1.665 · #cfb352
- TachaΔE00 1.712 · #d2b960
- Buried GoldΔE00 1.947 · #dbbc4b
- Banh Bot Loc DumplingΔE00 2.131 · #d2b762
- Tookie BirdΔE00 2.257 · #d6ba66
- Mustard OilΔE00 2.287 · #d5bd66
- CandelabraΔE00 2.438 · #e1c161
- Sun GodΔE00 2.506 · #dfba5a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.