HueComb

Duck Butter

#ddc75b

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

Hex

#ddc75b

RGB

221, 199, 91

OKLCh

82.7% 0.130 97.9°

CIELAB (D50)

80.6, -1.5, 55.7

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 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.1 and 6.1 and 8.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#897600 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

#ddc75b

protanopia

#caca5b · ΔE00 6.1

deuteranopia

#cece5a · ΔE00 6.1

tritanopia

#d2d200 · ΔE00 8.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCream Gold at ΔE00 1.201: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Cream GoldΔE00 1.201 · #dcc356
  • PepperonciniΔE00 1.327 · #d8c553
  • Williams Pear YellowΔE00 1.346 · #ddc765
  • Chifle YellowΔE00 1.38 · #dbc963
  • Nervy HueΔE00 1.474 · #d7c65b
  • Pirate TreasureΔE00 1.797 · #ddca69
  • Cotton Candy GrapeΔE00 1.858 · #dec74b
  • GlutenΔE00 1.887 · #ddcc66
  • Golden YarrowΔE00 1.889 · #e2c74f
  • Yellow Magic OrchestraΔE00 1.932 · #dcc449
  • Chicco d’OroΔE00 1.961 · #e2c555
  • Golden KingdomΔE00 2.013 · #e0c84b

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