Super Banana
#fffe71
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fffe71
RGB
255, 254, 113
OKLCh
97.1% 0.162 108.7°
CIELAB (D50)
97.8, -12.5, 65.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 0.0; on black, Lc -103.0. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.07:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7a00 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
#fffe71
protanopia
#fefe71 · ΔE00 0.2
deuteranopia
#fefe71 · ΔE00 0.2
tritanopia
#fefe68 · ΔE00 0.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isButter Yellow at ΔE00 0.466: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Butter YellowΔE00 0.466 · #fffd74
- Old Laser LemonΔE00 0.643 · #fdfc74
- HiveΔE00 0.654 · #ffff77
- Yellow PowderΔE00 0.735 · #fcfd74
- CustardΔE00 0.856 · #fffd78
- SupercalifragilisticexpialidociousΔE00 0.891 · #ffff69
- Light YellowΔE00 0.975 · #fffe7a
- Unmellow YellowΔE00 1.074 · #fefe66
- BananaΔE00 1.133 · #fffc79
- Laser LemonΔE00 1.164 · #ffff66
- Ecuadorian BananaΔE00 1.405 · #ffff7e
- CanaryΔE00 1.485 · #fdff63
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.