Sunny Glory
#e8d99c
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e8d99c
RGB
232, 217, 156
OKLCh
88.3% 0.080 96.0°
CIELAB (D50)
86.9, -1.2, 32.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 21 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.0; on black, Lc -83.4. 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 15.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.42:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#85763c 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
#e8d99c
protanopia
#dbdb9c · ΔE00 4.7
deuteranopia
#dede9b · ΔE00 4.8
tritanopia
#e1e100 · ΔE00 15.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLifeless Planet at ΔE00 0.719: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lifeless PlanetΔE00 0.719 · #e6d699
- FlourishΔE00 0.882 · #ebdc9c
- Ivory BuffΔE00 1.061 · #ebd999
- Subtle SunshineΔE00 1.062 · #e4d89a
- DemeterΔE00 1.072 · #ecda9e
- Bamboo MatΔE00 1.312 · #e5da9f
- Early SproutΔE00 1.342 · #e6d7a0
- Crystal YellowΔE00 1.385 · #e4d99f
- Leaf YellowΔE00 1.398 · #e9d79e
- Tainted GoldΔE00 1.546 · #ead795
- Refreshing TeaΔE00 1.616 · #ebdda6
- Wild PrimroseΔE00 1.644 · #ebdd99
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.