HueComb

Race the Sun

#eef3d0

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

#eef3d0

RGB

238, 243, 208

OKLCh

95.1% 0.046 113.9°

CIELAB (D50)

94.8, -6.1, 16.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 22% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -97.8. 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 6.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.14:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.37:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.37:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#75795a 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

#eef3d0

protanopia

#f2f2d0 · ΔE00 2.0

deuteranopia

#f2f2d0 · ΔE00 2.1

tritanopia

#f1f1e1 · ΔE00 6.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRice Flower at ΔE00 0.576: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Rice FlowerΔE00 0.576 · #eff5d1
  • Sun GlareΔE00 0.842 · #f1f4d1
  • Cool YellowΔE00 0.985 · #eaefce
  • Light FreshmanΔE00 1.208 · #ecf4d2
  • Bling BlingΔE00 1.304 · #eef0ce
  • Passionate PauseΔE00 1.425 · #edefcb
  • Yellowish WhiteΔE00 1.428 · #e9f1d0
  • Screaming SkullΔE00 1.457 · #f0f2d2
  • Light of New HopeΔE00 1.524 · #eaf3d0
  • Menoth White HighlightΔE00 1.61 · #f0f1ce
  • Sulphur WaterΔE00 1.626 · #f2f3cf
  • Distant SearchlightΔE00 1.696 · #f2f3ce

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