HueComb

Kaiser Cheese

#eed484

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

Hex

#eed484

RGB

238, 212, 132

OKLCh

87.4% 0.104 92.0°

CIELAB (D50)

85.8, 1.6, 42.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.8; on black, Lc -81.5. 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 7.6 and 7.7 and 13.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d7420 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

#eed484

protanopia

#d7d784 · ΔE00 7.6

deuteranopia

#dcdc83 · ΔE00 7.7

tritanopia

#e1e100 · ΔE00 13.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFeather Gold at ΔE00 0.3: 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.