HueComb

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#ece2b7

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

#ece2b7

RGB

236, 226, 183

OKLCh

91.0% 0.057 96.5°

CIELAB (D50)

89.9, -1.4, 22.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 37% 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 15.0; on black, Lc -88.8. 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 10.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80774f 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

#ece2b7

protanopia

#e3e3b7 · ΔE00 3.8

deuteranopia

#e5e5b7 · ΔE00 3.9

tritanopia

#e7e786 · ΔE00 10.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDesigner Cream Yellow at ΔE00 0.727: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Designer Cream YellowΔE00 0.727 · #efe5bb
  • BeachΔE00 0.876 · #efe4bb
  • Slices of HappyΔE00 1.066 · #ede5bc
  • Yellow Wax PepperΔE00 1.239 · #ede5b7
  • GinsengΔE00 1.529 · #f3e9bd
  • Star BrightΔE00 1.537 · #e8ddae
  • ChardonnayΔE00 1.67 · #efe8bc
  • Sandy ShoreΔE00 1.678 · #f2e9bb
  • Cookies and CreamΔE00 1.686 · #eee0b1
  • Arctic DaisyΔE00 1.703 · #ebe4be
  • Menoth White BaseΔE00 1.773 · #f3e8b8
  • Pale AdobeΔE00 1.807 · #f4e9ba

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