King’s Field
#f2e887
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f2e887
RGB
242, 232, 135
OKLCh
91.8% 0.119 103.3°
CIELAB (D50)
91.3, -6.1, 48.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.8; on black, Lc -91.1. 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 10.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837800 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
#f2e887
protanopia
#e9e987 · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#ebeb87 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#eded00 · ΔE00 10.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSahara Sand at ΔE00 0.353: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sahara SandΔE00 0.353 · #f1e788
- Machine OilΔE00 0.635 · #f1e782
- Templar’s GoldΔE00 0.768 · #f2e688
- Bright KhakiΔE00 0.915 · #f1e78c
- Halakā PīlāΔE00 0.964 · #f0e483
- CornflakeΔE00 1.114 · #f0e68c
- Gentlemann’s Business PantsΔE00 1.129 · #f1e68c
- Yellow IrisΔE00 1.247 · #ede68a
- Golden StaffΔE00 1.316 · #f7eb83
- FlavescentΔE00 1.494 · #f7e98e
- Ginger Lemon CakeΔE00 1.527 · #f1e991
- TexasΔE00 1.575 · #ece67e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.