HueComb

Gatsby Glitter

#eed683

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

Hex

#eed683

RGB

238, 214, 131

OKLCh

87.8% 0.106 93.8°

CIELAB (D50)

86.3, 0.6, 44.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.0; on black, Lc -82.4. 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 6.9 and 7.0 and 12.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.58:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.58:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c751c 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

#eed683

protanopia

#d9d983 · ΔE00 6.9

deuteranopia

#dddd82 · ΔE00 7.0

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 12.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPassementerie at ΔE00 0.461: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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