Habañero Gold
#fecf3c
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fecf3c
RGB
254, 207, 60
OKLCh
87.2% 0.162 90.0°
CIELAB (D50)
85.5, 7.2, 73.9
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 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.4; on black, Lc -80.9. 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 11.9 and 12.0 and 12.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.48:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#927300 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
#fecf3c
protanopia
#d5d53d · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#dede36 · ΔE00 12.0
tritanopia
#e8e800 · ΔE00 12.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeeps at ΔE00 0.345: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- PeepsΔE00 0.345 · #ffcf38
- LamplightΔE00 0.492 · #ffd140
- Golden MargueriteΔE00 0.781 · #fdcc37
- Golden SpellΔE00 0.921 · #fecc36
- Python YellowΔE00 1.083 · #ffd343
- SunglowΔE00 1.103 · #ffcc33
- Yellow JacketΔE00 1.169 · #ffcc3a
- Sunglow GeckoΔE00 1.172 · #ffcf48
- Flame YellowΔE00 1.269 · #ffcf49
- DaisyΔE00 1.269 · #fed340
- Golden GooseΔE00 1.513 · #ffd34e
- Lemon PunchΔE00 1.57 · #fecf24
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.