HueComb

Steamy Dumpling

#eae9b4

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

#eae9b4

RGB

234, 233, 180

OKLCh

92.2% 0.069 106.8°

CIELAB (D50)

91.5, -5.8, 26.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 35% 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 12.3; on black, Lc -91.6. 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.
  • 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

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7948 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

#eae9b4

protanopia

#e9e9b4 · ΔE00 0.3

deuteranopia

#e9e9b4 · ΔE00 0.3

tritanopia

#e9e9b0 · ΔE00 1.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMystic Melon at ΔE00 0.718: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mystic MelonΔE00 0.718 · #edebb4
  • ChiaΔE00 0.866 · #eeecb5
  • Limited LimeΔE00 1.253 · #eaecb9
  • SpringtimeΔE00 1.384 · #e9e5b3
  • TuskΔE00 1.432 · #e3e5b1
  • Medium GoldenrodΔE00 1.53 · #eaeaae
  • BeaconΔE00 1.538 · #ebe8b9
  • Pale Spring BudΔE00 1.741 · #ecebbd
  • Apple SliceΔE00 1.826 · #f1f0bf
  • Iced CeleryΔE00 1.857 · #e5e9b7
  • Tender YellowΔE00 1.878 · #e8ebaf
  • Perfect PearΔE00 1.892 · #e9e8bb

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