Fat Gold
#e6bc00
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e6bc00
RGB
230, 188, 0
OKLCh
80.9% 0.166 92.5°
CIELAB (D50)
78.3, 5.5, 79.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.6; on black, Lc -69.0. 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 10.7 and 10.7 and 11.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7400 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e6bc00
protanopia
#c1c104 · ΔE00 10.7
deuteranopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 10.7
tritanopia
#d2d200 · ΔE00 11.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoster Yellow at ΔE00 1.34: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Poster YellowΔE00 1.34 · #ecc100
- Plague BrownΔE00 1.373 · #dfb900
- Gold OreΔE00 1.741 · #ecbc14
- Durian YellowΔE00 1.862 · #e1bd27
- Radiant SunriseΔE00 1.949 · #eebe1b
- Abra GoldenrodΔE00 2.048 · #eec400
- LilikoiΔE00 2.1 · #e1bf03
- Golden SchnitzelΔE00 2.11 · #ddbb11
- Alu GobiΔE00 2.12 · #ddbb00
- Moon YellowΔE00 2.191 · #f0c420
- Fresh ScentΔE00 2.259 · #f1c11c
- Contrasting YellowΔE00 2.272 · #f2c200
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.