HueComb

Waffle Cone

#e2c779

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

Hex

#e2c779

RGB

226, 199, 121

OKLCh

83.6% 0.102 91.0°

CIELAB (D50)

81.3, 2.4, 42.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.9; on black, Lc -74.0. 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 8.1 and 8.2 and 13.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.68:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.68:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e7422 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

#e2c779

protanopia

#caca79 · ΔE00 8.1

deuteranopia

#cfcf78 · ΔE00 8.2

tritanopia

#d5d500 · ΔE00 13.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDusky Citron at ΔE00 0.301: 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.