HueComb

Nylon

#e9e3cb

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

#e9e3cb

RGB

233, 227, 203

OKLCh

91.4% 0.033 95.4°

CIELAB (D50)

90.2, -0.9, 12.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 57 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 23% 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 14.2; on black, Lc -89.6. 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 7.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7761 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

#e9e3cb

protanopia

#e4e4cb · ΔE00 2.9

deuteranopia

#e5e5cb · ΔE00 3.0

tritanopia

#e6e6b4 · ΔE00 7.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElderberry White at ΔE00 0.871: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Elderberry WhiteΔE00 0.871 · #eae5cf
  • White CliffsΔE00 0.896 · #e8e3c9
  • Orange WhiteΔE00 0.938 · #eae3cd
  • Abbey WhiteΔE00 0.982 · #ece6d0
  • Ineffable LinenΔE00 1.039 · #e6e1c7
  • Baby ArtichokeΔE00 1.047 · #e9e3ce
  • Floating IslandΔE00 1.071 · #ece5cf
  • Desert SmogΔE00 1.079 · #e9e4cf
  • Restoration IvoryΔE00 1.152 · #e9e1ca
  • CauliflowerΔE00 1.158 · #ebe5d0
  • Banana MilkshakeΔE00 1.193 · #ede6cb
  • BambooΔE00 1.257 · #e3dec6

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