Igniting
#f4d69a
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f4d69a
RGB
244, 214, 154
OKLCh
88.7% 0.084 84.2°
CIELAB (D50)
87.1, 4.7, 33.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 28 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 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.6; on black, Lc -83.8. 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 9.7 and 17.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.41:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e7339 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f4d69a
protanopia
#dada9a · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#dfdf99 · ΔE00 9.7
tritanopia
#e5e500 · ΔE00 17.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Corn at ΔE00 0.821: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- White CornΔE00 0.821 · #f0d498
- Phoenix FossilΔE00 0.853 · #f8d99e
- Instant NoodlesΔE00 1.149 · #f4d493
- SplashΔE00 1.227 · #f1d79e
- First Day of SchoolΔE00 1.261 · #fadba0
- MarquisetteΔE00 1.311 · #f3d49d
- Milky MaizeΔE00 1.319 · #f9d9a0
- Desert ConvoyΔE00 1.457 · #f7d497
- Sunbeam YellowΔE00 1.46 · #f0d39d
- Clay DustΔE00 1.514 · #f8dca3
- Straw YellowΔE00 1.682 · #f0d696
- BeeswingΔE00 1.719 · #f5d297
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.