HueComb

Sesame Seed

#e1d9b8

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

#e1d9b8

RGB

225, 217, 184

OKLCh

88.3% 0.045 95.9°

CIELAB (D50)

86.7, -1.1, 17.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 25% 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 20.1; on black, Lc -83.3. 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 9.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.42:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.82:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.82:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e7759 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

#e1d9b8

protanopia

#dadab8 · ΔE00 3.5

deuteranopia

#dbdbb8 · ΔE00 3.6

tritanopia

#dddd95 · ΔE00 9.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlowering Reed at ΔE00 0.611: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Flowering ReedΔE00 0.611 · #e1d8b8
  • Coconut CreamΔE00 0.715 · #e1dabb
  • Tempered SageΔE00 0.957 · #e3dbb7
  • Handmade LinenΔE00 0.977 · #ddd6b7
  • Banana FrappéΔE00 1.073 · #ddd5b6
  • Flaxen FairΔE00 1.224 · #e3ddbd
  • Amish BreadΔE00 1.297 · #e6ddbe
  • Afghan HoundΔE00 1.337 · #e2d7b5
  • Rancho VerdeΔE00 1.346 · #dfd8b3
  • Physalis PealΔE00 1.409 · #e1d8bb
  • Suna WhiteΔE00 1.421 · #dcd3b2
  • Alsot OliveΔE00 1.421 · #dfd5b1

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