HueComb

Deserted Beach

#e7dbbf

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

#e7dbbf

RGB

231, 219, 191

OKLCh

89.4% 0.040 87.6°

CIELAB (D50)

87.8, 0.9, 15.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 52 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 32% 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 18.3; 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.7 and 5.8 and 13.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#81765c 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

#e7dbbf

protanopia

#dcdcbf · ΔE00 5.7

deuteranopia

#dfdfbf · ΔE00 5.8

tritanopia

#e1e188 · ΔE00 13.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNatural Radiance at ΔE00 0.521: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Natural RadianceΔE00 0.521 · #e7dcc1
  • Biscuit DoughΔE00 0.669 · #e8dbbd
  • Double Pearl LustaΔE00 0.708 · #e9dcbe
  • Irish CreamΔE00 0.865 · #e9dbbe
  • CornerstoneΔE00 0.915 · #e3d7bb
  • Golden WeaveΔE00 0.968 · #eadcc0
  • SailclothΔE00 1.122 · #ece0c4
  • Pale ParsnipΔE00 1.186 · #e3d8bf
  • Shell HavenΔE00 1.282 · #ebdfc0
  • Adobe SandΔE00 1.319 · #e8dec5
  • Golden HaystackΔE00 1.33 · #eddfc1
  • OrigamiΔE00 1.342 · #ece0c6

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