HueComb

Sugar Cookie

#f2e2a4

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

Hex

#f2e2a4

RGB

242, 226, 164

OKLCh

91.1% 0.081 95.4°

CIELAB (D50)

90.1, -1.0, 32.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 33 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.7; on black, Lc -89.1. 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.
  • deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.0 and 15.8 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85763b 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

#f2e2a4

protanopia

#e4e4a4 · ΔE00 5.0

deuteranopia

#e7e7a3 · ΔE00 5.0

tritanopia

#eaea00 · ΔE00 15.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCymophane Yellow at ΔE00 0.544: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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