Bountiful Gold
#e4c36c
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e4c36c
RGB
228, 195, 108
OKLCh
82.8% 0.113 89.1°
CIELAB (D50)
80.3, 4.3, 47.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.4; on black, Lc -72.3. 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 9.7 and 9.8 and 13.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.70:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#92730c 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
#e4c36c
protanopia
#c7c76c · ΔE00 9.7
deuteranopia
#cdcd6a · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#d4d400 · ΔE00 13.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHighlight Gold at ΔE00 1.081: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Highlight GoldΔE00 1.081 · #dfc16d
- Turner’s YellowΔE00 1.227 · #e6c26f
- Sun SalutationΔE00 1.479 · #e7c26f
- CandelabraΔE00 1.61 · #e1c161
- Golden ChaliceΔE00 1.733 · #e7c068
- Bee PollenΔE00 1.743 · #ebca70
- Quilt GoldΔE00 1.766 · #eac365
- CrispsΔE00 1.768 · #e2bd67
- CheninΔE00 1.772 · #dec371
- Tasman Honey YellowΔE00 1.87 · #e6c562
- Tropical SiestaΔE00 2.003 · #ddc073
- Termite BeigeΔE00 2.007 · #ddbb66
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.