HueComb

Yellow Mellow

#f0d31e

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

Hex

#f0d31e

RGB

240, 211, 30

OKLCh

86.5% 0.174 98.8°

CIELAB (D50)

85.1, -1.2, 80.7

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 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.0; on black, Lc -80.2. 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 7.0 and 7.0 and 7.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887700 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#f0d31e

protanopia

#d7d71f · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#dcdc16 · ΔE00 7.0

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 7.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThick Yellow at ΔE00 0.718: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Thick YellowΔE00 0.718 · #f1d512
  • Safety YellowΔE00 0.764 · #eed202
  • Under the SunΔE00 0.792 · #efd100
  • Ripe LemonΔE00 1.201 · #f4d81c
  • The End Is BeerΔE00 1.271 · #eed508
  • Tau Light OchreΔE00 1.421 · #f7d60d
  • YellowlΔE00 1.422 · #f3d80e
  • GialloΔE00 1.519 · #f1d236
  • TartrazineΔE00 1.546 · #f7d917
  • Ancient YellowΔE00 1.621 · #eecd00
  • MargarineΔE00 1.633 · #f2d930
  • Gouda GoldΔE00 1.902 · #eecc11

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