HueComb

Spaghetti Monster

#eecc88

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

Hex

#eecc88

RGB

238, 204, 136

OKLCh

85.9% 0.094 84.0°

CIELAB (D50)

83.9, 5.8, 38.5

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 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.9; on black, Lc -78.2. 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 10.5 and 10.6 and 16.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#91722e 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

#eecc88

protanopia

#d0d088 · ΔE00 10.5

deuteranopia

#d7d787 · ΔE00 10.6

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 16.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWalnut Oil at ΔE00 0.443: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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