HueComb

Paved With Gold

#e8d284

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

Hex

#e8d284

RGB

232, 210, 132

OKLCh

86.5% 0.101 94.2°

CIELAB (D50)

84.8, 0.2, 41.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.4; on black, Lc -79.8. 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 6.5 and 6.5 and 13.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a7525 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

#e8d284

protanopia

#d5d584 · ΔE00 6.5

deuteranopia

#d9d983 · ΔE00 6.5

tritanopia

#dddd00 · ΔE00 13.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAncient Treasure at ΔE00 0.518: 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.