Force of Nature
#d5ce69
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d5ce69
RGB
213, 206, 105
OKLCh
83.6% 0.124 105.2°
CIELAB (D50)
81.8, -7.3, 50.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.1; on black, Lc -74.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.86:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.86:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817900 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
#d5ce69
protanopia
#cfcf69 · ΔE00 1.9
deuteranopia
#d0d069 · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#d1d100 · ΔE00 7.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLime Tree at ΔE00 0.597: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lime TreeΔE00 0.597 · #d8d06b
- QuinceΔE00 1.235 · #d4cb60
- AcaciaΔE00 2.045 · #dbcd64
- Salsa VerdeΔE00 2.591 · #cec754
- SequestaΔE00 2.644 · #d4d158
- SpeciesΔE00 2.715 · #dcd867
- Mung BeanΔE00 2.729 · #cac76d
- GlutenΔE00 2.802 · #ddcc66
- EnergisedΔE00 2.881 · #d2d25a
- CitronΔE00 2.895 · #d5c757
- Golden RiceΔE00 2.97 · #e3d474
- StrawΔE00 3.033 · #e4d96f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.