HueComb

Lemon Zest

#f9d857

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

Hex

#f9d857

RGB

249, 216, 87

OKLCh

88.7% 0.149 94.7°

CIELAB (D50)

87.4, 1.7, 65.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 33 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 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.3; on black, Lc -84.2. 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 8.6 and 8.6 and 10.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.40:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d7500 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

#f9d857

protanopia

#dcdc57 · ΔE00 8.6

deuteranopia

#e2e254 · ΔE00 8.6

tritanopia

#e9e900 · ΔE00 10.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlitter Yellow at ΔE00 0.481: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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