Paella
#dcc61f
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dcc61f
RGB
220, 198, 31
OKLCh
82.0% 0.165 100.9°
CIELAB (D50)
79.9, -3.4, 75.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 97% 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 31.1; on black, Lc -71.6. 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 5.5 and 5.5 and 5.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.73:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867700 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
#dcc61f
protanopia
#c9c920 · ΔE00 5.5
deuteranopia
#cdcd1a · ΔE00 5.5
tritanopia
#d1d100 · ΔE00 5.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMimosa Yellow at ΔE00 1.459: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mimosa YellowΔE00 1.459 · #dfc633
- Oh Em GheeΔE00 1.467 · #e3c81c
- Sorbet YellowΔE00 1.48 · #dac100
- ZingiberΔE00 1.688 · #dac01a
- Ryoku-Ou-Shoku YellowΔE00 1.71 · #dccb18
- Gone GiddyΔE00 1.774 · #d9c737
- AmokΔE00 1.79 · #ddcc22
- Mustard on ToastΔE00 1.95 · #ddcc33
- Pickled LemonΔE00 1.963 · #ddcc11
- Groovy Lemon PieΔE00 2.032 · #d6be01
- Mogwa-Cheong YellowΔE00 2.134 · #ddcc00
- Seed PodΔE00 2.151 · #dac43c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.