HueComb

Quercitron

#e5b03d

A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#e5b03d

RGB

229, 176, 61

OKLCh

78.6% 0.141 82.9°

CIELAB (D50)

75.4, 12.1, 63.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 87% 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 38.0; on black, Lc -64.4. 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 14.8 and 14.9 and 16.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.98:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#997000 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e5b03d

protanopia

#b7b73e · ΔE00 14.8

deuteranopia

#c2c237 · ΔE00 14.9

tritanopia

#cccc00 · ΔE00 16.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAztec Glimmer at ΔE00 1.072: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Aztec GlimmerΔE00 1.072 · #e7b347
  • Themeda JaponicaΔE00 1.16 · #e2b13c
  • Honey GlowΔE00 1.191 · #e8b447
  • Tulip TreeΔE00 1.273 · #e3ac3d
  • Midsummer GoldΔE00 1.303 · #eab034
  • Gambol GoldΔE00 1.311 · #e1b047
  • LionessΔE00 1.46 · #e0af47
  • Va Va VoomΔE00 1.688 · #e3b34c
  • Tiger CubΔE00 1.706 · #deae46
  • Australium GoldΔE00 1.738 · #e7b53b
  • Super LemonΔE00 1.766 · #e2b238
  • Mì Chéng HoneyΔE00 1.799 · #e8af45

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