Golden Kingdom
#e0c84b
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e0c84b
RGB
224, 200, 75
OKLCh
83.0% 0.144 98.3°
CIELAB (D50)
81.0, -1.4, 63.0
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 84% 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 6.4 and 6.4 and 7.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.68:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.53:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.53:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#897600 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
#e0c84b
protanopia
#cbcb4b · ΔE00 6.4
deuteranopia
#cfcf49 · ΔE00 6.4
tritanopia
#d4d400 · ΔE00 7.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCotton Candy Grape at ΔE00 0.401: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cotton Candy GrapeΔE00 0.401 · #dec74b
- Yellow Magic OrchestraΔE00 1.002 · #dcc449
- Golden YarrowΔE00 1.022 · #e2c74f
- Citrus SpiceΔE00 1.366 · #e2cd52
- Fall MeadowΔE00 1.422 · #e6c94c
- Seed PodΔE00 1.637 · #dac43c
- CrazyΔE00 1.676 · #e5cb3f
- Golden RelicΔE00 1.768 · #e8ce49
- ConfettiΔE00 1.868 · #ddcb46
- Snake EyesΔE00 1.874 · #e9cb4c
- PepperonciniΔE00 2 · #d8c553
- Gamboge YellowΔE00 2.003 · #e6d058
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.