Prairie Land
#e2cc9c
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
#e2cc9c
RGB
226, 204, 156
OKLCh
85.2% 0.068 86.2°
CIELAB (D50)
83.0, 2.8, 27.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.1; on black, Lc -76.9. 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 7.8 and 7.9 and 18.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#897447 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
#e2cc9c
protanopia
#cfcf9c · ΔE00 7.8
deuteranopia
#d3d39b · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#d7d700 · ΔE00 18.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrozen Fruit at ΔE00 0.579: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Frozen FruitΔE00 0.579 · #e1ca99
- Nomadic TravelsΔE00 0.881 · #e0c997
- AbstractΔE00 1.207 · #e4cb97
- Pale MossΔE00 1.311 · #dcc797
- Lucent YellowΔE00 1.603 · #e4d0a5
- Surrey CreamΔE00 1.623 · #dcc89d
- Honeycomb GlowΔE00 1.659 · #e4cf99
- Pale WoodΔE00 1.661 · #ead2a2
- So CloseΔE00 1.671 · #dfc89d
- ChamoisΔE00 1.672 · #e8cd9a
- TangentΔE00 1.723 · #ead3a2
- Italian StrawΔE00 1.793 · #e7d3a1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.