Master Key
#ddcc88
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ddcc88
RGB
221, 204, 136
OKLCh
84.4% 0.089 95.8°
CIELAB (D50)
82.3, -0.9, 36.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.3; on black, Lc -75.7. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.2 and 5.3 and 13.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.61:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867633 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ddcc88
protanopia
#cece88 · ΔE00 5.2
deuteranopia
#d1d187 · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#d5d500 · ΔE00 13.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSandwisp at ΔE00 1.24: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SandwispΔE00 1.24 · #decb81
- Camel CordΔE00 1.45 · #e0cb82
- Lemon ThymeΔE00 1.666 · #e4cf86
- Leaf PrintΔE00 1.793 · #e1d38e
- Master GardenerΔE00 1.868 · #e0ce80
- Asparagus YellowΔE00 1.921 · #dac98e
- Hay DayΔE00 1.987 · #dacd81
- Sonoma ChardonnayΔE00 2.115 · #ddcb91
- Wine YellowΔE00 2.182 · #d7c485
- StarfruitΔE00 2.19 · #e4d183
- Fire DanceΔE00 2.203 · #e3d590
- Desert WindΔE00 2.306 · #e5d295
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.