HueComb

Protoss

#e0c778

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

Hex

#e0c778

RGB

224, 199, 120

OKLCh

83.4% 0.103 92.4°

CIELAB (D50)

81.1, 1.5, 42.7

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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.2; on black, Lc -73.6. 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 7.4 and 7.5 and 12.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.67:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c7522 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

#e0c778

protanopia

#caca78 · ΔE00 7.4

deuteranopia

#cfcf77 · ΔE00 7.5

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 12.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDusky Citron at ΔE00 0.378: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.