HueComb

Pasta Rasta

#eec474

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#eec474

RGB

238, 196, 116

OKLCh

84.0% 0.110 82.4°

CIELAB (D50)

81.7, 8.4, 45.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.4; on black, Lc -74.5. 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 12.5 and 12.7 and 16.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#977018 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#eec474

protanopia

#c9c974 · ΔE00 12.5

deuteranopia

#d1d172 · ΔE00 12.7

tritanopia

#dada00 · ΔE00 16.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSassy Yellow at ΔE00 0.919: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.