Vermicelles
#dabe82
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dabe82
RGB
218, 190, 130
OKLCh
81.2% 0.084 85.6°
CIELAB (D50)
78.4, 4.3, 34.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.4; on black, Lc -69.3. 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 9.1 and 9.2 and 16.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.80:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d7339 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
#dabe82
protanopia
#c1c182 · ΔE00 9.1
deuteranopia
#c7c781 · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#cccc00 · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHoneymoon at ΔE00 0.786: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HoneymoonΔE00 0.786 · #d7bb80
- Brown RiceΔE00 0.83 · #dabd84
- JojobaΔE00 0.909 · #d9bd7d
- Gold TintΔE00 1.159 · #dec283
- SunspillΔE00 1.204 · #ddc283
- ChalkyΔE00 1.421 · #dfc281
- Honey TeaΔE00 1.547 · #d8be89
- Independent GoldΔE00 1.869 · #d2ba83
- Moonlight YellowΔE00 1.882 · #e1c38b
- FarinaΔE00 1.92 · #dfc38d
- TangyΔE00 1.955 · #e3c382
- Sahara GravelΔE00 2.022 · #dfc08a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.