HueComb

Daisy Desi

#fcdf8a

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

Hex

#fcdf8a

RGB

252, 223, 138

OKLCh

91.0% 0.109 91.2°

CIELAB (D50)

89.9, 2.3, 45.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 27 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 90% 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 15.2; on black, Lc -88.6. 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 8.3 and 8.4 and 13.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.06:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.06:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8f7416 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

#fcdf8a

protanopia

#e3e38a · ΔE00 8.3

deuteranopia

#e8e889 · ΔE00 8.4

tritanopia

#eeee00 · ΔE00 13.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Chamomile at ΔE00 1.039: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Sweet ChamomileΔE00 1.039 · #ffe186
  • Yellow CornΔE00 1.103 · #ffde88
  • Banana RepublicΔE00 1.118 · #ffe292
  • Lemon CreamΔE00 1.322 · #fee193
  • Daffodil YellowΔE00 1.406 · #ffe285
  • Broiled FlounderΔE00 1.43 · #ffdd88
  • Brite GoldΔE00 1.497 · #fede8f
  • Snug YellowΔE00 1.524 · #fcdb80
  • June DayΔE00 1.601 · #ffe182
  • Bicycle YellowΔE00 1.631 · #ffe58c
  • WheatΔE00 1.637 · #fbdd7e
  • Swedish YellowΔE00 1.67 · #fce081

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