French Fry
#ebc263
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ebc263
RGB
235, 194, 99
OKLCh
83.1% 0.123 86.2°
CIELAB (D50)
80.7, 7.2, 52.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.9; on black, Lc -72.9. 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 11.8 and 11.9 and 14.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.69:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#967100 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
#ebc263
protanopia
#c7c763 · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#cfcf61 · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#d8d800 · ΔE00 14.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuilt Gold at ΔE00 0.552: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Quilt GoldΔE00 0.552 · #eac365
- Honey CrispΔE00 0.558 · #e9c160
- Tōmorokoshi YellowΔE00 0.627 · #eec362
- Fruit YellowΔE00 0.745 · #eac064
- OverjoyΔE00 0.855 · #eec25f
- Crop CircleΔE00 0.91 · #e9bf63
- I’m a LocalΔE00 1.051 · #ebbf5c
- Golden ChaliceΔE00 1.198 · #e7c068
- ButterblondΔE00 1.292 · #f1c766
- Golden AppealΔE00 1.465 · #e6be59
- SundriedΔE00 1.49 · #eabd5b
- Soft CheddarΔE00 1.624 · #e4bc5b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.