24 Karat
#dfc685
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dfc685
RGB
223, 198, 133
OKLCh
83.3% 0.088 89.3°
CIELAB (D50)
80.9, 2.6, 36.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.5; on black, Lc -73.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.9 and 8.0 and 15.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c7434 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
#dfc685
protanopia
#c9c985 · ΔE00 7.9
deuteranopia
#cece84 · ΔE00 8.0
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 15.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalty Cracker at ΔE00 1.07: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Salty CrackerΔE00 1.07 · #e2c681
- GermaniaΔE00 1.142 · #ddc47e
- SunspillΔE00 1.192 · #ddc283
- Gold TintΔE00 1.37 · #dec283
- ChalkyΔE00 1.462 · #dfc281
- BeachcombingΔE00 1.494 · #e4c683
- Blossom YellowΔE00 1.715 · #e1c77d
- Lol YellowΔE00 1.76 · #e7cd8b
- Lemon Sorbet YellowΔE00 1.95 · #dcc68e
- Wine YellowΔE00 1.998 · #d7c485
- AlchemyΔE00 2.169 · #e7cf8c
- TangyΔE00 2.171 · #e3c382
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.