Hot Sand
#ccaa00
A yellow that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ccaa00
RGB
204, 170, 0
OKLCh
74.6% 0.153 94.5°
CIELAB (D50)
71.0, 3.3, 72.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.2; on black, Lc -57.9. 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 9.1 and 9.1 and 9.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d7500 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ccaa00
protanopia
#aeae03 · ΔE00 9.1
deuteranopia
#b5b500 · ΔE00 9.1
tritanopia
#bcbc00 · ΔE00 9.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChristmas Gold at ΔE00 0.467: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Christmas GoldΔE00 0.467 · #caa906
- Catkin YellowΔE00 0.737 · #cca800
- La VidaΔE00 1.739 · #c4a703
- Prehnite YellowΔE00 1.986 · #d0a700
- Armageddon DustΔE00 2.211 · #d3a907
- Grass DaisyΔE00 2.239 · #ceb02a
- Burnt YellowΔE00 2.279 · #d5ab09
- SulphurΔE00 2.482 · #cab012
- Hippie TrailΔE00 2.492 · #c6aa2b
- CitronetteΔE00 2.668 · #c4aa27
- Brownish YellowΔE00 2.743 · #c9b003
- Crown of LiechtensteinΔE00 2.861 · #d8b411
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.