HueComb

Walking on Sunshine

#fcfc9d

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

Hex

#fcfc9d

RGB

252, 252, 157

OKLCh

97.0% 0.117 108.4°

CIELAB (D50)

97.4, -9.9, 45.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -102.5. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.07:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7a10 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

#fcfc9d

protanopia

#fcfc9d · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#fcfc9d · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#fcfc9d · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSunburst Yellow at ΔE00 1.155: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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