Super Saiyan
#ffdd00
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffdd00
RGB
255, 221, 0
OKLCh
89.9% 0.186 97.9°
CIELAB (D50)
89.0, 0.0, 87.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 31 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 16.8; on black, Lc -86.9. 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 7.9 and 7.9 and 8.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.59:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#897600 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ffdd00
protanopia
#e1e104 · ΔE00 7.9
deuteranopia
#e8e800 · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#efef00 · ΔE00 8.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGingerline at ΔE00 0.297: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GingerlineΔE00 0.297 · #ffdd11
- Summer SunΔE00 0.31 · #ffdc00
- Dallol YellowΔE00 0.35 · #fddc00
- Golden YellowΔE00 0.616 · #ffdf00
- Sizzling SunriseΔE00 0.621 · #ffdb00
- Egg Yolk SunriseΔE00 0.691 · #ffdb0b
- DandelionΔE00 0.783 · #fedf08
- Tibetan YellowΔE00 0.798 · #fedf00
- Gangsters GoldΔE00 0.836 · #ffdd22
- Sun YellowΔE00 0.9 · #ffdf22
- Sunflower YellowΔE00 0.948 · #ffda03
- Evil-LynΔE00 1.112 · #fed903
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.