HueComb

Evening Glow

#fdd792

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

Hex

#fdd792

RGB

253, 215, 146

OKLCh

89.6% 0.097 81.9°

CIELAB (D50)

88.1, 7.2, 39.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 26 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 94% 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 18.1; on black, Lc -85.5. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 11.5 and 11.7 and 18.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#94712c 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

#fdd792

protanopia

#dcdc92 · ΔE00 11.5

deuteranopia

#e3e390 · ΔE00 11.7

tritanopia

#ebeb00 · ΔE00 18.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSun Splashed at ΔE00 0.69: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sun SplashedΔE00 0.69 · #fbd795
  • Golden HazeΔE00 0.71 · #fcd896
  • CornmealΔE00 0.851 · #ffd691
  • Flower Hat JellyfishΔE00 0.853 · #f9d593
  • Classical YellowΔE00 1.005 · #f8d492
  • Orange ChalkΔE00 1.08 · #fad48b
  • Flat BeigeΔE00 1.186 · #f7d48f
  • Light Ginger YellowΔE00 1.261 · #f7d28c
  • Sunbathed BeachΔE00 1.302 · #fad28f
  • OberonΔE00 1.345 · #fcd389
  • Cha-Cha-ChaΔE00 1.351 · #ffdb92
  • Egg CreamΔE00 1.6 · #ffd98c

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