HueComb

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#efc872

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

Hex

#efc872

RGB

239, 200, 114

OKLCh

84.9% 0.114 85.6°

CIELAB (D50)

82.7, 6.7, 48.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 11.4 and 11.5 and 15.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#96710a 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

#efc872

protanopia

#cdcd72 · ΔE00 11.4

deuteranopia

#d4d470 · ΔE00 11.5

tritanopia

#dcdc00 · ΔE00 15.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPastel de Nata at ΔE00 0.822: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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