Sunlight
#ebcd95
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ebcd95
RGB
235, 205, 149
OKLCh
86.1% 0.080 82.7°
CIELAB (D50)
84.0, 5.2, 32.0
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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.6; on black, Lc -78.5. 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 9.8 and 10.0 and 18.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.70:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.70:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e733d 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
#ebcd95
protanopia
#d1d195 · ΔE00 9.8
deuteranopia
#d6d694 · ΔE00 10.0
tritanopia
#dcdc00 · ΔE00 18.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden West at ΔE00 0.902: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Golden WestΔE00 0.902 · #e9ca94
- Honeysuckle BeigeΔE00 0.911 · #eaca90
- Sparkling ChampagneΔE00 0.93 · #efcf98
- Cotton MuslinΔE00 1.224 · #eed09c
- ChamoisΔE00 1.277 · #e8cd9a
- Willow-Flower YellowΔE00 1.41 · #f0d29d
- MaderaΔE00 1.432 · #eed09d
- Bright CloveΔE00 1.44 · #efcf9b
- Sunbeam YellowΔE00 1.467 · #f0d39d
- AbstractΔE00 1.719 · #e4cb97
- Knightley StrawΔE00 1.745 · #edcc99
- MarquisetteΔE00 1.752 · #f3d49d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.