Groovy Lemon Pie
#d6be01
A yellow that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d6be01
RGB
214, 190, 1
OKLCh
79.7% 0.166 100.1°
CIELAB (D50)
77.2, -2.3, 77.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 35.2; on black, Lc -67.4. 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 6.0 and 6.0 and 6.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#877700 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
#d6be01
protanopia
#c1c103 · ΔE00 6.0
deuteranopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#caca00 · ΔE00 6.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSorbet Yellow at ΔE00 0.867: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sorbet YellowΔE00 0.867 · #dac100
- Mustard FlowerΔE00 0.901 · #d2bd0a
- ZingiberΔE00 0.993 · #dac01a
- Indian Pale AleΔE00 1.594 · #d5bc26
- Ghee YellowΔE00 1.749 · #d8bc23
- PaellaΔE00 2.032 · #dcc61f
- Banana PowderΔE00 2.315 · #d0c101
- Bird FlowerΔE00 2.372 · #d0c117
- Alu GobiΔE00 2.605 · #ddbb00
- Mimosa YellowΔE00 2.632 · #dfc633
- LilikoiΔE00 2.646 · #e1bf03
- LionheadΔE00 2.657 · #d5b60a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.