HueComb

Sand

#e2ca76

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

Hex

#e2ca76

RGB

226, 202, 118

OKLCh

84.1% 0.108 93.9°

CIELAB (D50)

82.0, 0.7, 44.9

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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.8; on black, Lc -75.2. 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 7.1 and 12.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.62:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c7519 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

#e2ca76

protanopia

#cdcd76 · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#d1d175 · ΔE00 7.1

tritanopia

#d6d600 · ΔE00 12.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDijon Mustard 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.