Pollen
#eeeeaa
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#eeeeaa
RGB
238, 238, 170
OKLCh
93.3% 0.087 108.0°
CIELAB (D50)
92.9, -7.6, 33.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.0; on black, Lc -94.2. 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.
- 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
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7a39 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#eeeeaa
protanopia
#eeeeaa · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#eeeeaa · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#eeeeaa · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemon Pepper at ΔE00 0.589: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lemon PepperΔE00 0.589 · #ebeca7
- Lightly LimeΔE00 0.924 · #f0eda8
- Patrinia ScabiosaefoliaΔE00 0.965 · #f2f2b0
- Pale CanaryΔE00 1.179 · #f1efa6
- Lemon TonicΔE00 1.444 · #efefb2
- FanlightΔE00 1.506 · #f2eeaf
- Wax YellowΔE00 1.625 · #eae8a0
- Medium GoldenrodΔE00 1.764 · #eaeaae
- Kiwi Ice CreamΔE00 1.854 · #e5e7a7
- Sailor MoonlightΔE00 1.869 · #f6f1a9
- Hip HopΔE00 1.98 · #e4e8a7
- Tender YellowΔE00 2.043 · #e8ebaf
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.