HueComb

Final Departure

#f1f5db

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

#f1f5db

RGB

241, 245, 219

OKLCh

96.0% 0.034 114.1°

CIELAB (D50)

95.7, -4.7, 12.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 26 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 0.0; on black, Lc -99.6. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.82:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.82:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#767962 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

#f1f5db

protanopia

#f5f5db · ΔE00 1.8

deuteranopia

#f4f4db · ΔE00 1.8

tritanopia

#f3f3e8 · ΔE00 5.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSprig of Sage at ΔE00 0.368: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sprig of SageΔE00 0.368 · #f2f6db
  • Overexposed ShotΔE00 0.811 · #eff4dc
  • Old Kitchen WhiteΔE00 0.91 · #eff5dc
  • Lemon SugarΔE00 0.917 · #f0f6dd
  • Warm TurbulenceΔE00 0.933 · #f3f5dc
  • Theatre District LightsΔE00 0.95 · #eef4db
  • Cream ClearΔE00 0.974 · #f1f3da
  • Plain and SimpleΔE00 1.172 · #ebf0d6
  • Fragile FernΔE00 1.191 · #eff2db
  • Wishy-Washy LimeΔE00 1.254 · #eef5db
  • Morning GlowΔE00 1.284 · #eef0d6
  • Budding LeafΔE00 1.312 · #eef0d7

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