Goldilocks
#fff39a
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fff39a
RGB
255, 243, 154
OKLCh
95.4% 0.111 101.6°
CIELAB (D50)
95.4, -4.8, 44.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.5. 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 11.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847817 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
#fff39a
protanopia
#f4f49a · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#f7f799 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#f9f91b · ΔE00 11.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Cream at ΔE00 0.368: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Banana CreamΔE00 0.368 · #fff49c
- Yellow TailΔE00 0.714 · #fff29d
- Lemon Bundt CakeΔE00 1.025 · #fef59f
- Candle FlameΔE00 1.044 · #fff4a1
- Firefly GlowΔE00 1.146 · #fff3a1
- Daisy ChainΔE00 1.163 · #fff09b
- Sun SurpriseΔE00 1.182 · #fff2a0
- SpaghettiΔE00 1.219 · #fef69e
- SparklerΔE00 1.756 · #ffee99
- CalabashΔE00 1.791 · #f8eb97
- The First DaffodilΔE00 1.951 · #fff08c
- Old YellaΔE00 1.999 · #feed9a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.