Garlic Toast
#dddd88
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dddd88
RGB
221, 221, 136
OKLCh
87.9% 0.107 108.4°
CIELAB (D50)
86.7, -9.1, 41.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.3; on black, Lc -83.2. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.42:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7a22 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dddd88
protanopia
#dddd88 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#dddd88 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#dddd88 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSassy Lime at ΔE00 1.346: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sassy LimeΔE00 1.346 · #dfe289
- Wax GreenΔE00 1.384 · #d8db8b
- Lively LaughΔE00 1.452 · #e1dd8e
- CrescendoΔE00 1.65 · #e3df84
- Citrus ButterΔE00 1.901 · #e4de8e
- Grape CassataΔE00 2.042 · #dfe384
- Pear TintΔE00 2.067 · #e3de92
- Carolina ParakeetΔE00 2.224 · #d8df80
- Dead GrassΔE00 2.28 · #e4dc8a
- CharlockΔE00 2.292 · #e2e483
- Tender SproutΔE00 2.402 · #e8e287
- Yellow PressΔE00 2.518 · #e6e382
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.