Horseradish
#e6dfc4
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
#e6dfc4
RGB
230, 223, 196
OKLCh
90.2% 0.037 95.0°
CIELAB (D50)
88.9, -0.8, 14.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 32 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 24% 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 16.6; on black, Lc -87.1. 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 8.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d775e 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
#e6dfc4
protanopia
#e0e0c4 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#e1e1c4 · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#e2e2a8 · ΔE00 8.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIonic Ivory at ΔE00 0.641: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ionic IvoryΔE00 0.641 · #e7dfc5
- CrispaΔE00 0.966 · #e7dfc1
- FloweryΔE00 0.973 · #e4dcbf
- Ineffable LinenΔE00 1.01 · #e6e1c7
- Star of GoldΔE00 1.044 · #ebe3c7
- White CliffsΔE00 1.244 · #e8e3c9
- BambooΔE00 1.258 · #e3dec6
- Happy MargarineΔE00 1.271 · #e0dabf
- NylonΔE00 1.354 · #e9e3cb
- Pearl LustaΔE00 1.413 · #eae1c8
- Belvedere CreamΔE00 1.45 · #e3dbc3
- Amish BreadΔE00 1.457 · #e6ddbe
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.