HueComb

Golden Harvest

#cccc11

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

Hex

#cccc11

RGB

204, 204, 17

OKLCh

81.8% 0.176 109.7°

CIELAB (D50)

80.0, -13.2, 77.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • 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 30.8; on black, Lc -72.0. 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

1.72:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7b00 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cccc11

protanopia

#cccc11 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#cccc11 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#cccc11 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Foil at ΔE00 0.372: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Golden FoilΔE00 0.372 · #cccc00
  • Lime PopΔE00 1.483 · #cccb2f
  • Lizard BellyΔE00 1.715 · #cccc33
  • Sun Flooded WoodsΔE00 1.971 · #d0d418
  • March GreenΔE00 2.049 · #d4cc00
  • Dirty YellowΔE00 2.344 · #cdc50a
  • Yellow-Green GrosbeakΔE00 2.528 · #c8cd37
  • Sulphur SpringΔE00 2.613 · #d5d717
  • Cricket ChirpingΔE00 2.87 · #c7c10c
  • Chartreuse ShotΔE00 2.925 · #dad000
  • Key Lime PieΔE00 2.959 · #bfc921
  • Poisonous Ice CreamΔE00 3.061 · #d7d927

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