HueComb

Honeydew Sand

#eece8d

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#eece8d

RGB

238, 206, 141

OKLCh

86.4% 0.090 84.4°

CIELAB (D50)

84.4, 5.2, 36.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.0; on black, Lc -79.2. 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 10.0 and 10.1 and 17.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.52:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#907332 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

#eece8d

protanopia

#d2d28d · ΔE00 10.0

deuteranopia

#d8d88c · ΔE00 10.1

tritanopia

#dfdf00 · ΔE00 17.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpaghetti Monster at ΔE00 0.827: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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