HueComb

Hay Day

#dacd81

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

Hex

#dacd81

RGB

218, 205, 129

OKLCh

84.2% 0.098 99.7°

CIELAB (D50)

82.2, -3.2, 39.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.4; on black, Lc -75.5. 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 11.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#84772a 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

#dacd81

protanopia

#cfcf81 · ΔE00 3.9

deuteranopia

#d1d180 · ΔE00 3.9

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 11.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Grass at ΔE00 1.1: 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.