Yellow Press
#e6e382
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e6e382
RGB
230, 227, 130
OKLCh
89.8% 0.120 107.0°
CIELAB (D50)
88.9, -8.8, 47.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.7; on black, Lc -87.0. 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.
- 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
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7a05 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
#e6e382
protanopia
#e3e382 · ΔE00 0.8
deuteranopia
#e4e482 · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#e4e46d · ΔE00 3.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHippy at ΔE00 0.772: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HippyΔE00 0.772 · #eae583
- Elfin YellowΔE00 1.116 · #ebe885
- Tender SproutΔE00 1.159 · #e8e287
- CrescendoΔE00 1.201 · #e3df84
- CharlockΔE00 1.338 · #e2e483
- TexasΔE00 1.524 · #ece67e
- Yellow IrisΔE00 1.551 · #ede68a
- Grape CassataΔE00 1.963 · #dfe384
- Fresh LemonadeΔE00 2.156 · #ece678
- Sassy LimeΔE00 2.214 · #dfe289
- Sahara SandΔE00 2.255 · #f1e788
- Machine OilΔE00 2.318 · #f1e782
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.