HueComb

Instant Noodles

#f4d493

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

Hex

#f4d493

RGB

244, 212, 147

OKLCh

88.2% 0.090 84.5°

CIELAB (D50)

86.6, 5.1, 36.5

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 20.6; on black, Lc -82.8. 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 9.9 and 10.1 and 17.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.43:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.69:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.69:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#907333 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

#f4d493

protanopia

#d8d893 · ΔE00 9.9

deuteranopia

#dede92 · ΔE00 10.1

tritanopia

#e5e500 · ΔE00 17.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlat Beige at ΔE00 1.004: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.