Couscous
#ffe29b
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffe29b
RGB
255, 226, 155
OKLCh
92.1% 0.095 88.2°
CIELAB (D50)
91.1, 3.3, 38.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 13.1; on black, Lc -90.8. 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 8.7 and 8.8 and 16.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.60:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.60:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e742d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ffe29b
protanopia
#e6e69b · ΔE00 8.7
deuteranopia
#ebeb9a · ΔE00 8.8
tritanopia
#f1f100 · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrème Brûlée at ΔE00 0.42: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Crème BrûléeΔE00 0.42 · #ffe39b
- Lemon DropsΔE00 0.682 · #ffe49d
- Peach Crème BrûléeΔE00 0.739 · #ffe19d
- Hesperide Apple GoldΔE00 0.945 · #ffe296
- Cheerful HueΔE00 0.946 · #ffe195
- Polka Dot SkirtΔE00 1.019 · #fde2a0
- Sunny VerandaΔE00 1.036 · #fedf94
- Sign of the CrownΔE00 1.049 · #fce299
- Hello YellowΔE00 1.072 · #ffe59d
- April SunshineΔE00 1.103 · #fbe198
- Imam Ali GoldΔE00 1.297 · #fae199
- Yellow GeraniumΔE00 1.317 · #ffe1a0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.