HueComb

Golden Spell

#fecc36

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

Hex

#fecc36

RGB

254, 204, 54

OKLCh

86.6% 0.163 88.9°

CIELAB (D50)

84.8, 8.5, 75.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 98% 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 23.6; on black, Lc -79.6. 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 12.7 and 12.7 and 13.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.51:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.90:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.90:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#937200 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

#fecc36

protanopia

#d2d237 · ΔE00 12.7

deuteranopia

#dcdc2f · ΔE00 12.7

tritanopia

#e6e600 · ΔE00 13.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Marguerite at ΔE00 0.241: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Golden MargueriteΔE00 0.241 · #fdcc37
  • SunglowΔE00 0.281 · #ffcc33
  • Yellow JacketΔE00 0.459 · #ffcc3a
  • PeepsΔE00 0.819 · #ffcf38
  • Habañero GoldΔE00 0.921 · #fecf3c
  • Golden Buddha BellyΔE00 1.198 · #ffcc22
  • Golden HandshakeΔE00 1.3 · #ffcc44
  • Banana BoatΔE00 1.32 · #fdc838
  • Sunglow GeckoΔE00 1.372 · #ffcf48
  • BumblebeeΔE00 1.384 · #ffc82a
  • LamplightΔE00 1.386 · #ffd140
  • Flame YellowΔE00 1.454 · #ffcf49

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