HueComb

Golden Eye

#ffd789

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

Hex

#ffd789

RGB

255, 215, 137

OKLCh

89.6% 0.106 83.3°

CIELAB (D50)

88.2, 7.3, 43.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 18.0; on black, Lc -85.6. 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 11.7 and 12.0 and 17.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#96711d 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

#ffd789

protanopia

#dcdc89 · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#e4e487 · ΔE00 12.0

tritanopia

#ecec00 · ΔE00 17.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEgg Cream at ΔE00 0.645: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Egg CreamΔE00 0.645 · #ffd98c
  • Float Like a ButterflyΔE00 0.755 · #fdd685
  • Big Bus YellowΔE00 1.058 · #ffda8b
  • Orange ChalkΔE00 1.169 · #fad48b
  • OberonΔE00 1.212 · #fcd389
  • Zinnia GoldΔE00 1.427 · #ffd781
  • Cha-Cha-ChaΔE00 1.437 · #ffdb92
  • Soft SaffronΔE00 1.534 · #fdd47e
  • Pixel CreamΔE00 1.623 · #f7d384
  • Pollen PowderΔE00 1.642 · #fbd187
  • Evening GlowΔE00 1.647 · #fdd792
  • №5ΔE00 1.673 · #f8d68b

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