HueComb

Desert Temple

#ddcc99

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#ddcc99

RGB

221, 204, 153

OKLCh

84.7% 0.069 91.8°

CIELAB (D50)

82.5, 0.5, 27.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.9; on black, Lc -76.1. 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 5.9 and 5.9 and 16.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#857645 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

#ddcc99

protanopia

#cece99 · ΔE00 5.9

deuteranopia

#d1d198 · ΔE00 5.9

tritanopia

#d5d500 · ΔE00 16.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLunar Lander at ΔE00 0.887: 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.