HueComb

Frost

#e1e4c5

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

#e1e4c5

RGB

225, 228, 197

OKLCh

90.8% 0.041 111.7°

CIELAB (D50)

89.7, -4.9, 14.8

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 21% 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 15.1; on black, Lc -88.7. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#77795d 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

#e1e4c5

protanopia

#e4e4c5 · ΔE00 1.3

deuteranopia

#e3e3c5 · ΔE00 1.3

tritanopia

#e3e3cf · ΔE00 4.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLazy Caterpillar at ΔE00 0.387: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Lazy CaterpillarΔE00 0.387 · #e2e5c7
  • Origami CloverΔE00 0.894 · #e1e6c7
  • Healing SpringsΔE00 0.97 · #e1e2c2
  • LilylockΔE00 1.075 · #e0e1c1
  • More MelonΔE00 1.241 · #e0e3c8
  • Fountain FrolicΔE00 1.287 · #e4e4c5
  • Sylvan GreenΔE00 1.314 · #e7eacb
  • Tinted MintΔE00 1.328 · #e3e7c4
  • Marble GrapeΔE00 1.375 · #dee2c7
  • Carpathian DawnΔE00 1.447 · #dee3c0
  • More MintΔE00 1.502 · #e6e8c5
  • Soft VellumΔE00 1.555 · #dddebe

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