HueComb

Fake Blonde

#efe6c1

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

#efe6c1

RGB

239, 230, 193

OKLCh

92.3% 0.050 95.9°

CIELAB (D50)

91.3, -1.2, 19.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 39% 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 12.5; on black, Lc -91.4. 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 9.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7755 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

#efe6c1

protanopia

#e7e7c1 · ΔE00 3.7

deuteranopia

#e9e9c1 · ΔE00 3.8

tritanopia

#eaea99 · ΔE00 9.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEthereal Green at ΔE00 0.99: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ethereal GreenΔE00 0.99 · #f0e8c6
  • Pear SorbetΔE00 0.991 · #f3eac3
  • Arctic DaisyΔE00 1.069 · #ebe4be
  • Pineapple CreamΔE00 1.076 · #f2eac3
  • Slices of HappyΔE00 1.264 · #ede5bc
  • BeachΔE00 1.304 · #efe4bb
  • Designer Cream YellowΔE00 1.368 · #efe5bb
  • StarbrightΔE00 1.445 · #f5ecc9
  • Creamy VanillaΔE00 1.62 · #f2e5bf
  • Natural LightΔE00 1.635 · #f1ebc8
  • Birth of VenusΔE00 1.64 · #f6ebc2
  • Lemon IcingΔE00 1.641 · #f6ebc8

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