ΔE 9.8, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Yellow Ochre is warmer than Zamesi Desert. They are different kinds of paint: Citadel Zamesi Desert is an opaque base/layer paint and Golden Yellow Ochre is an ink, glaze or transparent paint, so they won’t behave the same on the model even where the colour is close.
Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 10). Yellow Ochre is warmer than Zamesi Desert. They are different kinds of paint.
The same difference applies the other way round: Zamesi Desert is cooler.
ΔE is the colour difference between our two swatch estimates: under about 6 is close, over about 15 is loose. Real paints also differ in finish, coverage and how they thin, so test before you commit.
See Zamesi Desert on the colour wheel See Yellow Ochre on the colour wheel
All matches: Zamesi Desert equivalents · Yellow Ochre equivalents