HueComb

Ancient Treasure

#e7d082

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#e7d082

RGB

231, 208, 130

OKLCh

86.0% 0.101 93.5°

CIELAB (D50)

84.1, 0.6, 41.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.4; on black, Lc -78.7. 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 6.8 and 6.9 and 13.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b7524 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e7d082

protanopia

#d3d382 · ΔE00 6.8

deuteranopia

#d7d781 · ΔE00 6.9

tritanopia

#dcdc00 · ΔE00 13.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaved With Gold at ΔE00 0.518: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.