Crisps
#e2bd67
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e2bd67
RGB
226, 189, 103
OKLCh
81.3% 0.113 86.5°
CIELAB (D50)
78.6, 6.2, 48.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.1; on black, Lc -69.5. 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 10.9 and 11.1 and 14.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#94720c 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
#e2bd67
protanopia
#c2c267 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#c9c965 · ΔE00 11.1
tritanopia
#d0d000 · ΔE00 14.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDandelion Wish at ΔE00 0.924: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dandelion WishΔE00 0.924 · #e3bb65
- Golden ChaliceΔE00 1.006 · #e7c068
- Termite BeigeΔE00 1.056 · #ddbb66
- Turner’s YellowΔE00 1.328 · #e6c26f
- Sun SalutationΔE00 1.374 · #e7c26f
- Lemon SurpriseΔE00 1.597 · #e1bc5c
- Crop CircleΔE00 1.6 · #e9bf63
- Misted YellowΔE00 1.64 · #dab965
- Soft CheddarΔE00 1.683 · #e4bc5b
- Fruit YellowΔE00 1.723 · #eac064
- Bountiful GoldΔE00 1.768 · #e4c36c
- Sun GodΔE00 1.772 · #dfba5a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.