HueComb

Celestial Crown

#ead97c

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

Hex

#ead97c

RGB

234, 217, 124

OKLCh

88.0% 0.116 99.2°

CIELAB (D50)

86.6, -2.9, 47.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.5; on black, Lc -82.9. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.43:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887707 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

#ead97c

protanopia

#dbdb7c · ΔE00 4.7

deuteranopia

#dede7b · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 10.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlax at ΔE00 0.943: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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