Tuscan Sun
#ffd84d
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffd84d
RGB
255, 216, 77
OKLCh
89.2% 0.157 93.0°
CIELAB (D50)
87.9, 3.8, 70.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 21 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.5; on black, Lc -85.0. 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 9.9 and 9.9 and 10.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7400 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
#ffd84d
protanopia
#dddd4e · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#e4e449 · ΔE00 9.9
tritanopia
#ecec00 · ΔE00 10.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKuchinashi Yellow at ΔE00 0.967: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Kuchinashi YellowΔE00 0.967 · #ffdb4f
- Buzz-InΔE00 1.107 · #ffd756
- Yriel YellowΔE00 1.141 · #ffdb58
- Westfall YellowΔE00 1.164 · #fcd450
- VibrantΔE00 1.395 · #ffd44d
- DaisyΔE00 1.469 · #fed340
- Glitter Is Not GoldΔE00 1.488 · #fedc57
- Lemon TwistΔE00 1.54 · #fed95d
- Python YellowΔE00 1.56 · #ffd343
- Pickled GingerΔE00 1.565 · #ffdd55
- Common DandelionΔE00 1.631 · #fed85d
- Exploding StarΔE00 1.643 · #fed83a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.