HueComb

Honeycomb

#ddaa11

A yellow that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ddaa11

RGB

221, 170, 17

OKLCh

76.4% 0.154 86.4°

CIELAB (D50)

72.9, 10.8, 73.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 98% 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 41.7; on black, Lc -60.6. 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 13.7 and 13.7 and 14.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.14:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#957100 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

#ddaa11

protanopia

#b1b114 · ΔE00 13.7

deuteranopia

#bbbb00 · ΔE00 13.7

tritanopia

#c5c500 · ΔE00 14.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCabana Glow at ΔE00 0.494: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cabana GlowΔE00 0.494 · #dca901
  • Chinese GoldΔE00 0.521 · #ddaa00
  • BaroqueΔE00 0.933 · #ddaa22
  • Deadly MustardΔE00 0.955 · #dead11
  • Mustard YellowΔE00 1.101 · #e1ad01
  • UrobilinΔE00 1.113 · #e1ad21
  • Mortal YellowΔE00 1.254 · #dead00
  • Fine GoldΔE00 1.488 · #daa826
  • GallianoΔE00 1.537 · #d8a723
  • Golden Beryl YellowΔE00 1.621 · #d9a400
  • Golden SamovarΔE00 1.655 · #dfaf2b
  • Kōwhai YellowΔE00 1.732 · #e1b029

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