Gold Grillz
#ece086
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ece086
RGB
236, 224, 134
OKLCh
89.7% 0.112 101.7°
CIELAB (D50)
88.7, -4.8, 45.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.1; on black, Lc -86.6. 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 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847814 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
#ece086
protanopia
#e1e186 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#e4e485 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#e6e600 · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDay Glow at ΔE00 0.721: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Day GlowΔE00 0.721 · #eadd82
- Shinjuku GoldΔE00 0.952 · #f0e185
- Yellow PearΔE00 1.013 · #e9df8a
- Gentlemann’s Business PantsΔE00 1.314 · #f1e68c
- Halakā PīlāΔE00 1.323 · #f0e483
- Electric Light OrchestraΔE00 1.341 · #f2e384
- CornflakeΔE00 1.363 · #f0e68c
- Templar’s GoldΔE00 1.412 · #f2e688
- Golden BlondeΔE00 1.468 · #efe17e
- Mothra WingΔE00 1.496 · #eedd82
- Bright KhakiΔE00 1.558 · #f1e78c
- Sahara SandΔE00 1.679 · #f1e788
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.