Silver Fern
#e1ddbf
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
#e1ddbf
RGB
225, 221, 191
OKLCh
89.3% 0.040 100.9°
CIELAB (D50)
87.8, -2.3, 15.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 22% 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 18.2; on black, Lc -85.3. 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 5.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.30:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b785c 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
#e1ddbf
protanopia
#ddddbf · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#dedebf · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#dfdfaf · ΔE00 5.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbove Board at ΔE00 0.575: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Above BoardΔE00 0.575 · #e0ddbe
- Flaxen FairΔE00 1.015 · #e3ddbd
- PanaceaΔE00 1.331 · #dddbc0
- Woven ReedΔE00 1.409 · #dddcbf
- Coconut CreamΔE00 1.465 · #e1dabb
- Happy MargarineΔE00 1.52 · #e0dabf
- Spring DayΔE00 1.544 · #dbd7b7
- Ineffable LinenΔE00 1.748 · #e6e1c7
- Green PowerΔE00 1.779 · #e2e1c6
- Ghostly GreenΔE00 1.791 · #d9d7b8
- Dream GrassΔE00 1.81 · #dfdac1
- Dirty WhiteΔE00 1.878 · #e8e4c9
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.