HueComb

Egg Yolk

#ffce81

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

Hex

#ffce81

RGB

255, 206, 129

OKLCh

87.8% 0.110 77.9°

CIELAB (D50)

85.9, 11.2, 45.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.7; on black, Lc -81.6. 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 14.4 and 14.8 and 19.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9b6f1a 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

#ffce81

protanopia

#d4d481 · ΔE00 14.4

deuteranopia

#dede7f · ΔE00 14.8

tritanopia

#e8e800 · ΔE00 19.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeviled Eggs at ΔE00 0.444: 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.