Cereal Flake
#efd7ab
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
#efd7ab
RGB
239, 215, 171
OKLCh
88.8% 0.063 82.6°
CIELAB (D50)
87.2, 3.8, 25.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 44 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.4; on black, Lc -84.0. 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 8.9 and 9.0 and 20.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8a744b 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
#efd7ab
protanopia
#dadaab · ΔE00 8.9
deuteranopia
#dedeaa · ΔE00 9.0
tritanopia
#e3e300 · ΔE00 20.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Marzipan at ΔE00 0.611: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sweet MarzipanΔE00 0.611 · #ecd5aa
- Homey CreamΔE00 0.872 · #f0d8af
- AstraΔE00 0.938 · #edd5a6
- Straw HatΔE00 1.028 · #f0d5a8
- AshwoodΔE00 1.064 · #edd6ae
- VinaigretteΔE00 1.193 · #efdaae
- Quiet VerandaΔE00 1.202 · #ebd2a7
- PreciousΔE00 1.259 · #f1dab2
- Paper MoonΔE00 1.288 · #ead4a6
- Canary IslandΔE00 1.299 · #e9d4a9
- Canyon SandΔE00 1.368 · #f2d6aa
- Caribbean SunriseΔE00 1.412 · #f5daaa
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.