Cloud of Cream
#f1e2c4
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
#f1e2c4
RGB
241, 226, 196
OKLCh
91.7% 0.043 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
90.5, 1.8, 16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 80 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.9; on black, Lc -90.0. 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 6.9 and 7.0 and 16.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#83755a 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
#f1e2c4
protanopia
#e4e4c4 · ΔE00 6.9
deuteranopia
#e7e7c4 · ΔE00 7.0
tritanopia
#eaea7a · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAfterglow at ΔE00 0.219: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AfterglowΔE00 0.219 · #f2e3c5
- Cremini MushroomΔE00 0.445 · #f0e2c4
- Creamy GelatoΔE00 0.453 · #f0e2c5
- Cauliflower CreamΔE00 0.613 · #f2e4c7
- Champagne BlissΔE00 0.688 · #f0e1c5
- Straw-BaleΔE00 0.69 · #f1e3c7
- Cameo CreamΔE00 0.814 · #f3e2c3
- Golden HaystackΔE00 0.834 · #eddfc1
- Blonde CurlΔE00 0.844 · #efe2c5
- SausalitoΔE00 0.889 · #f4e5c5
- CottonseedΔE00 0.912 · #f5e6c7
- White ChocolateΔE00 0.93 · #f0e3c7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.