HueComb

Dijon Mustard

#e2ca73

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

Hex

#e2ca73

RGB

226, 202, 115

OKLCh

84.1% 0.111 94.4°

CIELAB (D50)

82.0, 0.5, 46.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.8; on black, Lc -75.1. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.0 and 7.0 and 11.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.62:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c7513 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

#e2ca73

protanopia

#cdcd73 · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#d1d172 · ΔE00 7.0

tritanopia

#d6d600 · ΔE00 11.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSand at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.