Corn
#fbec5d
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fbec5d
RGB
251, 236, 93
OKLCh
92.9% 0.161 103.3°
CIELAB (D50)
92.7, -6.8, 68.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.6; on black, Lc -93.5. 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 5.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.26:1. 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
#fbec5d
protanopia
#eeee5d · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#f1f15c · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#f4f400 · ΔE00 5.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMaizena at ΔE00 0.096: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MaizenaΔE00 0.096 · #fbec5e
- Blacksmith FireΔE00 0.912 · #f7e856
- Caduceus GoldΔE00 0.997 · #ffee66
- YellowishΔE00 1.109 · #faee66
- Pale AleΔE00 1.131 · #fef068
- Paris DaisyΔE00 1.134 · #fbeb50
- Xanthe YellowΔE00 1.146 · #ffee55
- Kihada YellowΔE00 1.367 · #fef263
- Sweet Lemon SeedΔE00 2.001 · #fff45a
- Rapeseed BlossomΔE00 2.134 · #ffec47
- Yellow SandΔE00 2.191 · #fdee73
- Yellow PetalΔE00 2.236 · #f0e74b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.