HueComb

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#eff0d3

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

#eff0d3

RGB

239, 240, 211

OKLCh

94.7% 0.038 108.7°

CIELAB (D50)

94.2, -3.9, 14.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 41 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 19% 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 7.7; on black, Lc -96.7. 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

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#78785f 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

#eff0d3

protanopia

#f0f0d3 · ΔE00 0.4

deuteranopia

#f0f0d3 · ΔE00 0.5

tritanopia

#f0f0d7 · ΔE00 1.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMǔ Lì Bái Oyster at ΔE00 0.712: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mǔ Lì Bái OysterΔE00 0.712 · #f1f2d3
  • Monet MoonriseΔE00 0.749 · #eef0d1
  • Morning GlowΔE00 1.027 · #eef0d6
  • Screaming SkullΔE00 1.046 · #f0f2d2
  • Praise the SunΔE00 1.075 · #f3f4d9
  • Yellow AvariceΔE00 1.236 · #f5f5d9
  • ShynessΔE00 1.287 · #f3f3d9
  • Bite the BulletΔE00 1.308 · #ecebce
  • Budding LeafΔE00 1.326 · #eef0d7
  • Capri CreamΔE00 1.337 · #f1f0d6
  • Moon SugarΔE00 1.37 · #f5f5da
  • Celery IceΔE00 1.373 · #eaebd1

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