Gold Winged
#e6d682
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e6d682
RGB
230, 214, 130
OKLCh
87.1% 0.106 98.8°
CIELAB (D50)
85.6, -2.6, 43.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.1; on black, Lc -81.2. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#86771e 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
#e6d682
protanopia
#d8d882 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#dbdb81 · ΔE00 4.6
tritanopia
#dede00 · ΔE00 11.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTomatillo at ΔE00 0.888: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TomatilloΔE00 0.888 · #e9d988
- Pineapple WhipΔE00 0.98 · #ead988
- Artichoke HeartΔE00 1.222 · #e4d588
- Celestial CrownΔE00 1.559 · #ead97c
- Coco-Lemon TartΔE00 1.662 · #eedd88
- StarfruitΔE00 1.695 · #e4d183
- FlaxΔE00 1.758 · #eedc82
- ImpetuousΔE00 1.792 · #e4d68c
- Golden ScarabΔE00 1.913 · #eddb8e
- Mothra WingΔE00 1.922 · #eedd82
- Day GlowΔE00 1.986 · #eadd82
- Golden RiceΔE00 2.004 · #e3d474
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.