Natural Light
#f1ebc8
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
#f1ebc8
RGB
241, 235, 200
OKLCh
93.6% 0.046 99.2°
CIELAB (D50)
92.9, -2.1, 17.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 35 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 36% 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 9.9; on black, Lc -94.2. 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 6.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.46:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.46:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d7758 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
#f1ebc8
protanopia
#ececc8 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#ededc8 · ΔE00 2.6
tritanopia
#eeeeaf · ΔE00 6.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMinimal at ΔE00 0.923: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MinimalΔE00 0.923 · #f3eecd
- Ethereal GreenΔE00 1.095 · #f0e8c6
- Tart GelatoΔE00 1.163 · #f6eec9
- Clotted CreamΔE00 1.169 · #f3efcd
- Pineapple CreamΔE00 1.303 · #f2eac3
- StarbrightΔE00 1.331 · #f5ecc9
- Silk SailsΔE00 1.358 · #f6eecd
- Piece of CakeΔE00 1.409 · #ede7c8
- Pacific SandΔE00 1.48 · #f1ebcd
- Blonde BeautyΔE00 1.48 · #f2efcd
- Daybreak SunΔE00 1.497 · #f7eecb
- Silk StarΔE00 1.498 · #f5eec6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.