HueComb

Boutique Beige

#e1cead

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

#e1cead

RGB

225, 206, 173

OKLCh

85.9% 0.049 81.5°

CIELAB (D50)

83.7, 3.1, 19.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 56 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 35% 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 24.9; on black, Lc -78.2. 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 8.4 and 8.6 and 20.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867556 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

#e1cead

protanopia

#d0d0ad · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#d4d4ac · ΔE00 8.6

tritanopia

#d8d818 · ΔE00 20.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCreamy Chenille at ΔE00 0.474: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Creamy ChenilleΔE00 0.474 · #e1cfaf
  • Cream CakeΔE00 0.763 · #e3d0ad
  • SandblastΔE00 0.771 · #decbab
  • NetsukeΔE00 0.878 · #e0cfb0
  • Melt With YouΔE00 0.902 · #e3cfab
  • SundewΔE00 0.908 · #e1cdae
  • Braided RaffiaΔE00 0.923 · #e1d0af
  • Peaceable KingdomΔE00 0.965 · #ddccac
  • Bisque TanΔE00 0.979 · #e5d2b0
  • Chowder BowlΔE00 1.016 · #e5d2b2
  • Assateague SandΔE00 1.122 · #e1d0b2
  • IvoireΔE00 1.144 · #e4ceac

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