HueComb

Lanky Lemon

#d9c948

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

Hex

#d9c948

RGB

217, 201, 72

OKLCh

82.6% 0.147 102.2°

CIELAB (D50)

80.6, -5.0, 63.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.1; on black, Lc -72.7. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847800 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#d9c948

protanopia

#cbcb48 · ΔE00 4.2

deuteranopia

#cece47 · ΔE00 4.2

tritanopia

#d1d100 · ΔE00 5.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Sheen at ΔE00 0.582: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Green SheenΔE00 0.582 · #d7c94a
  • ConfettiΔE00 0.87 · #ddcb46
  • Advertisement GreenΔE00 0.884 · #d8cb4b
  • LimoneΔE00 1.269 · #d6c443
  • WattleΔE00 1.485 · #d6ca3d
  • Gone GiddyΔE00 1.513 · #d9c737
  • Gold DepositΔE00 1.804 · #e0ce57
  • Citrus SpiceΔE00 1.917 · #e2cd52
  • Cotton Candy GrapeΔE00 1.966 · #dec74b
  • PepperonciniΔE00 1.984 · #d8c553
  • Seed PodΔE00 1.986 · #dac43c
  • CitronΔE00 2.028 · #d5c757

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