Honey Crisp
#e9c160
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e9c160
RGB
233, 193, 96
OKLCh
82.7% 0.124 87.0°
CIELAB (D50)
80.2, 6.7, 53.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.7; on black, Lc -72.1. 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 11.4 and 11.5 and 14.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.26:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#957200 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
#e9c160
protanopia
#c6c660 · ΔE00 11.4
deuteranopia
#cece5d · ΔE00 11.5
tritanopia
#d6d600 · ΔE00 14.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Fry at ΔE00 0.558: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- French FryΔE00 0.558 · #ebc263
- Quilt GoldΔE00 0.65 · #eac365
- Golden AppealΔE00 0.961 · #e6be59
- Tōmorokoshi YellowΔE00 1.039 · #eec362
- Fruit YellowΔE00 1.081 · #eac064
- I’m a LocalΔE00 1.092 · #ebbf5c
- OverjoyΔE00 1.125 · #eec25f
- Crop CircleΔE00 1.135 · #e9bf63
- Soft CheddarΔE00 1.25 · #e4bc5b
- Golden ChaliceΔE00 1.361 · #e7c068
- SundriedΔE00 1.536 · #eabd5b
- Luminous ApricotΔE00 1.575 · #ecbf55
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.