Rating Star's Default color/background-color Changes

[dbltoe]

Came across a new (to me) contrast checker at https://github.com/ThePacielloGroup/CCAe. One advantage of this checker is that you can "lock in" shades and, using the left and right arrows, change r, g, and b at the same time.

I was playing with its extra features and decided to give the rating star thing a try with the original background of #ffffff as I've never been fond of the workaround we had to do.

The result was #987000 which looks like a viable alternative. It's especially better than having the #322424 background with #efa31d and it meets the color contrast ratio for that item in all the testers I have at my disposal.

Take a look at the result on haredoDOTcom and see what you think. If you like it, throw it in whenever you feel appropriate.

I didn't want to muddy up the important stuff with a PR for this.

[lat9]

#987000 is, IMO, as ugly as the current #322424:

What's so wrong with a white background?

[lat9]

What about changing the background to #ffffff and the color to #987000? Does that make the contrast better:

[dbltoe]

Using #987000 with #ffffff as the background is the absolute minimum contrast that still looks like gold and exceeds minimums at 4.51:1 in contrast, which is what I intended with the original post.
The current default of #efs31d results in a contrast ratio of 2.12:1. Total failure.