Beige

#e6daa6

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

#e6daa6

RGB

230, 218, 166

OKLCh

88.5% 0.069 96.6°

CIELAB (D50)

87.1, -1.6, 27.3

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 38% 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 19.6; on black, Lc -83.9. 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 12.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827746 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

#e6daa6

protanopia

#dbdba6 · ΔE00 4.1

deuteranopia

#dedea6 · ΔE00 4.1

tritanopia

#e0e05d · ΔE00 12.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Charm at ΔE00 1.014: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

Green CharmΔE00 1.014 · #e7dda7
Refreshing TeaΔE00 1.148 · #ebdda6
Sunny BurrataΔE00 1.15 · #eadfaa
Early SproutΔE00 1.294 · #e6d7a0
PaccheriΔE00 1.359 · #ecdfad
Star BrightΔE00 1.401 · #e8ddae
Russet GreenΔE00 1.409 · #e3d9a0
Crystal YellowΔE00 1.452 · #e4d99f
Citrus RindΔE00 1.562 · #ede0ae
Buckwheat GroatsΔE00 1.615 · #e0d8a7
Bamboo MatΔE00 1.616 · #e5da9f
Studio CreamΔE00 1.713 · #ebdbaa

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