HueComb

Stardust

#ddd3ae

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

#ddd3ae

RGB

221, 211, 174

OKLCh

86.6% 0.050 94.7°

CIELAB (D50)

84.7, -0.8, 19.7

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 uses only 28% 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 23.4; on black, Lc -79.8. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.1 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807755 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

#ddd3ae

protanopia

#d4d4ae · ΔE00 4.2

deuteranopia

#d6d6ae · ΔE00 4.3

tritanopia

#d8d87e · ΔE00 11.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlsot Olive at ΔE00 0.566: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Alsot OliveΔE00 0.566 · #dfd5b1
  • Rice PaddyΔE00 0.637 · #dfd4b0
  • Capital GrainsΔE00 1.118 · #dbd0a8
  • Bleached WheatΔE00 1.129 · #ddd2a9
  • Suna WhiteΔE00 1.155 · #dcd3b2
  • Afghan HoundΔE00 1.481 · #e2d7b5
  • Champagne CocktailΔE00 1.555 · #e3d7ae
  • Beige GreenΔE00 1.618 · #e0d8b0
  • Rancho VerdeΔE00 1.631 · #dfd8b3
  • Meadow DewΔE00 1.668 · #e2d4ad
  • Honey MistΔE00 1.704 · #e5d9b2
  • Dull Light YellowΔE00 1.709 · #e5d9b4

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