HueComb

Sunspill

#ddc283

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

Hex

#ddc283

RGB

221, 194, 131

OKLCh

82.3% 0.087 87.3°

CIELAB (D50)

79.7, 3.6, 35.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.4; on black, Lc -71.4. 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 8.6 and 8.7 and 15.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.73:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.12:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.12:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d7436 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#ddc283

protanopia

#c5c583 · ΔE00 8.6

deuteranopia

#caca82 · ΔE00 8.7

tritanopia

#d0d000 · ΔE00 15.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGold Tint at ΔE00 0.313: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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