Oh My Gold
#eebb55
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#eebb55
RGB
238, 187, 85
OKLCh
81.9% 0.132 82.3°
CIELAB (D50)
79.2, 11.2, 57.4
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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.3; on black, Lc -70.3. 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 14.4 and 14.6 and 16.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a7000 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#eebb55
protanopia
#c2c256 · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#cccc51 · ΔE00 14.6
tritanopia
#d6d600 · ΔE00 16.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRonchi at ΔE00 0.847: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- RonchiΔE00 0.847 · #eab852
- BeeΔE00 1.115 · #f1ba55
- Yellow ConeflowerΔE00 1.127 · #edb856
- Chandra CreamΔE00 1.3 · #ecba5d
- SundriedΔE00 1.52 · #eabd5b
- Maximum Yellow RedΔE00 1.538 · #f2ba49
- Bright IdeaΔE00 1.799 · #ecbe63
- I’m a LocalΔE00 1.898 · #ebbf5c
- Honey GlowΔE00 1.946 · #e8b447
- Luminous ApricotΔE00 1.998 · #ecbf55
- GoldsmithΔE00 2.033 · #eeb550
- ButterfieldΔE00 2.067 · #f7be5b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.