Celery Sceptre
#e1df9a
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e1df9a
RGB
225, 223, 154
OKLCh
88.9% 0.089 106.7°
CIELAB (D50)
87.8, -7.0, 34.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.5; on black, Lc -85.1. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.22:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.22:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c7937 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
#e1df9a
protanopia
#dfdf9a · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#e0e09a · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#e0e090 · ΔE00 2.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBored Accent Green at ΔE00 0.582: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bored Accent GreenΔE00 0.582 · #dedd98
- ChalcedonyΔE00 0.833 · #dddd99
- Pear TintΔE00 1.637 · #e3de92
- Young WheatΔE00 1.666 · #dcdf9d
- Marsh MistΔE00 1.912 · #e8e1a1
- Reviving GreenΔE00 2.016 · #e8e097
- Wax YellowΔE00 2.03 · #eae8a0
- Lively LaughΔE00 2.034 · #e1dd8e
- CitrinoΔE00 2.343 · #e9e89b
- Kiwi Ice CreamΔE00 2.35 · #e5e7a7
- Citrus ButterΔE00 2.399 · #e4de8e
- Pale Lime YellowΔE00 2.409 · #dfe497
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.