Tortilla
#efdba7
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
#efdba7
RGB
239, 219, 167
OKLCh
89.5% 0.071 89.5°
CIELAB (D50)
88.1, 1.5, 28.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 33 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.9; on black, Lc -85.6. 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 6.8 and 6.8 and 17.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#877544 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
#efdba7
protanopia
#dddda7 · ΔE00 6.8
deuteranopia
#e1e1a6 · ΔE00 6.8
tritanopia
#e5e500 · ΔE00 17.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrilliant Gold at ΔE00 0.873: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brilliant GoldΔE00 0.873 · #f0dbaa
- Creamy IvoryΔE00 1.041 · #eeddaa
- Honey and CreamΔE00 1.098 · #f1ddad
- Bleached BoneΔE00 1.145 · #efd9a8
- Angelic YellowΔE00 1.256 · #f4dfa7
- Golden FleeceΔE00 1.272 · #edd9aa
- Subtle GlowΔE00 1.282 · #ebd7a7
- Cutlery PolishΔE00 1.283 · #f4dda5
- Glad YellowΔE00 1.34 · #f5e1ac
- UpbeatΔE00 1.345 · #f1d9a5
- Gold StrandΔE00 1.398 · #f3dfa6
- Studio CreamΔE00 1.405 · #ebdbaa
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.