Macaroni
#f3d085
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f3d085
RGB
243, 208, 133
OKLCh
87.1% 0.102 85.4°
CIELAB (D50)
85.3, 5.7, 41.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 29 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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.7; on black, Lc -80.6. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.5 and 10.6 and 16.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.48:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#927224 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
#f3d085
protanopia
#d4d485 · ΔE00 10.5
deuteranopia
#dbdb83 · ΔE00 10.6
tritanopia
#e2e200 · ΔE00 16.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHollywood Starlet at ΔE00 0.701: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hollywood StarletΔE00 0.701 · #f2d082
- Pixel CreamΔE00 0.99 · #f7d384
- Soft StrawΔE00 1.067 · #f5d180
- Warm GlowΔE00 1.133 · #f1cf8a
- Maybe MauiΔE00 1.184 · #f6d48d
- Scalloped PotatoesΔE00 1.207 · #f6d58b
- Sienna YellowΔE00 1.323 · #f1d28c
- SproutedΔE00 1.352 · #f3d48b
- Mountain MaizeΔE00 1.353 · #efcc7c
- №5ΔE00 1.365 · #f8d68b
- Light Ginger YellowΔE00 1.417 · #f7d28c
- Yellow BirdΔE00 1.421 · #f1cd7b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.