Finger Banana
#e1c12f
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e1c12f
RGB
225, 193, 47
OKLCh
81.5% 0.156 95.8°
CIELAB (D50)
79.1, 1.5, 71.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.3; on black, Lc -70.4. 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 8.3 and 8.3 and 8.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c7500 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
#e1c12f
protanopia
#c5c530 · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#cbcb2a · ΔE00 8.3
tritanopia
#d2d200 · ΔE00 8.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDurian Yellow at ΔE00 1.33: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Durian YellowΔE00 1.33 · #e1bd27
- Thai TempleΔE00 1.333 · #e7c630
- WaxΔE00 1.767 · #ddbb33
- LilikoiΔE00 1.781 · #e1bf03
- BollywoodΔE00 1.81 · #debb32
- Golden SchnitzelΔE00 1.848 · #ddbb11
- Ghee YellowΔE00 1.853 · #d8bc23
- Mimosa YellowΔE00 2.073 · #dfc633
- ZingiberΔE00 2.077 · #dac01a
- Alu GobiΔE00 2.115 · #ddbb00
- Zhohltyi YellowΔE00 2.391 · #e4c500
- Indian Pale AleΔE00 2.453 · #d5bc26
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.