HueComb

Breath of Celery

#dce7cb

A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#dce7cb

RGB

220, 231, 203

OKLCh

91.2% 0.039 124.7°

CIELAB (D50)

90.2, -7.4, 12.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 only 17% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.2; on black, Lc -89.7. 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 17.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.34:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.34:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#717a61 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#dce7cb

protanopia

#e6e6cb · ΔE00 4.6

deuteranopia

#e4e4cb · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#e2e2ed · ΔE00 17.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhiff of Green at ΔE00 0.798: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Whiff of GreenΔE00 0.798 · #dee9cf
  • Misted FernΔE00 1.156 · #e1ecd1
  • Misty HillsideΔE00 1.216 · #dce5cc
  • Great JoyΔE00 1.242 · #d8e6cb
  • Minty FrostingΔE00 1.291 · #dbe8cf
  • Light SecurityΔE00 1.329 · #e0e9d0
  • LacewingΔE00 1.382 · #d7e3ca
  • Cabbage LeafΔE00 1.508 · #dfe8d0
  • Flower BulbΔE00 1.625 · #d9e8c9
  • SecurityΔE00 1.681 · #d6e1c2
  • Infinitesimal GreenΔE00 1.702 · #d7e4cc
  • Light Lime SherbetΔE00 1.818 · #d8e6ce

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.