HueComb

Lemon Burst

#fed67e

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

Hex

#fed67e

RGB

254, 214, 126

OKLCh

89.2% 0.116 85.6°

CIELAB (D50)

87.7, 6.7, 48.6

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 97% 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 18.8; on black, Lc -84.7. 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 11.4 and 11.6 and 15.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.39:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#967103 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

#fed67e

protanopia

#dbdb7e · ΔE00 11.4

deuteranopia

#e3e37c · ΔE00 11.6

tritanopia

#ebeb00 · ΔE00 15.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZinnia Gold at ΔE00 0.416: 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.