HueComb

Mille-Feuille

#efc87d

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

Hex

#efc87d

RGB

239, 200, 125

OKLCh

85.0% 0.103 82.9°

CIELAB (D50)

82.8, 7.4, 42.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.6; on black, Lc -76.4. 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 11.7 and 11.9 and 16.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#957122 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

#efc87d

protanopia

#cdcd7d · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#d4d47b · ΔE00 11.9

tritanopia

#dcdc00 · ΔE00 16.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlmond Cookie at ΔE00 0.395: 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.