Maize
#f4d054
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f4d054
RGB
244, 208, 84
OKLCh
86.6% 0.145 92.8°
CIELAB (D50)
84.9, 3.4, 64.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 25 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.3; on black, Lc -79.9. 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 9.5 and 9.5 and 10.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.50:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.00:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.00:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7400 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f4d054
protanopia
#d4d455 · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#dbdb51 · ΔE00 9.5
tritanopia
#e3e300 · ΔE00 10.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrimrose Yellow at ΔE00 0.379: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Primrose YellowΔE00 0.379 · #f6d155
- StellaΔE00 0.384 · #f5d056
- Yellow MaskΔE00 0.473 · #f6d255
- Sorreno LemonΔE00 0.842 · #f1d058
- Radiant SunΔE00 0.938 · #f0cc50
- Fish FingerΔE00 1.219 · #eecc55
- Wake Me UpΔE00 1.302 · #f6d559
- KournikovaΔE00 1.331 · #f9d054
- Salmon EggsΔE00 1.403 · #f7d560
- Solar Plexus ChakraΔE00 1.468 · #f0ca4a
- Vault-Tec YellowΔE00 1.566 · #efcc5b
- Westfall YellowΔE00 1.592 · #fcd450
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.