HueComb

Soda Pop

#c3c67e

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

Hex

#c3c67e

RGB

195, 198, 126

OKLCh

80.8% 0.094 110.4°

CIELAB (D50)

78.4, -9.2, 35.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.2; on black, Lc -69.4. 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

1.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797b34 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

#c3c67e

protanopia

#c6c67e · ΔE00 0.9

deuteranopia

#c5c57e · ΔE00 0.9

tritanopia

#c5c58d · ΔE00 3.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChimes at ΔE00 1.324: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.