Honey Gold
#e1b67c
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e1b67c
RGB
225, 182, 124
OKLCh
80.2% 0.090 74.3°
CIELAB (D50)
77.0, 10.6, 35.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.5; on black, Lc -67.0. 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 13.9 and 14.2 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#976f36 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
#e1b67c
protanopia
#bbbb7c · ΔE00 13.9
deuteranopia
#c4c47a · ΔE00 14.2
tritanopia
#cdcd00 · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmbitious at ΔE00 0.87: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AmbitiousΔE00 0.87 · #dfb77d
- BeehiveΔE00 0.929 · #e1b781
- Cane SugarΔE00 1.005 · #e3b982
- Fulgurite CopperΔE00 1.332 · #e6b77e
- Cellini GoldΔE00 1.632 · #ddb582
- BoudinΔE00 1.654 · #dab27d
- Polvo de OroΔE00 1.711 · #e8b87f
- CorvetteΔE00 1.763 · #e9ba81
- High PlateauΔE00 1.83 · #e4b37a
- JerboaΔE00 1.909 · #dfb886
- Demerara SugarΔE00 1.934 · #e1b270
- Pyramid GoldΔE00 1.95 · #e5b572
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.