HueComb

Sprig of Sage

#f2f6db

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

#f2f6db

RGB

242, 246, 219

OKLCh

96.3% 0.036 113.9°

CIELAB (D50)

96.0, -4.8, 12.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 21% 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 -100.2. 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 5.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#767961 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

#f2f6db

protanopia

#f6f6db · ΔE00 1.7

deuteranopia

#f5f5db · ΔE00 1.8

tritanopia

#f4f4e8 · ΔE00 5.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

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

  • Final DepartureΔE00 0.368 · #f1f5db
  • Lemon SugarΔE00 1.068 · #f0f6dd
  • Warm TurbulenceΔE00 1.078 · #f3f5dc
  • Old Kitchen WhiteΔE00 1.098 · #eff5dc
  • Overexposed ShotΔE00 1.135 · #eff4dc
  • Theatre District LightsΔE00 1.165 · #eef4db
  • Cream ClearΔE00 1.181 · #f1f3da
  • Praise the SunΔE00 1.322 · #f3f4d9
  • Wishy-Washy LimeΔE00 1.333 · #eef5db
  • Plain and SimpleΔE00 1.386 · #ebf0d6
  • Tokyo UndergroundΔE00 1.456 · #ecf3d8
  • Morning GlowΔE00 1.46 · #eef0d6

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