HueComb

Pastel de Nata

#f2c975

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f2c975

RGB

242, 201, 117

OKLCh

85.4% 0.113 84.0°

CIELAB (D50)

83.3, 7.6, 47.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.9; on black, Lc -77.2. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 12.0 and 12.2 and 16.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.57:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#97710f 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

#f2c975

protanopia

#cece75 · ΔE00 12.0

deuteranopia

#d6d673 · ΔE00 12.2

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 16.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHit the Hay at ΔE00 0.822: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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