HueComb

Soft Butter

#f4e1b6

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

#f4e1b6

RGB

244, 225, 182

OKLCh

91.5% 0.060 87.0°

CIELAB (D50)

90.3, 1.9, 23.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 36 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.3; on black, Lc -89.5. 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 7.2 and 7.3 and 19.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#86754d 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

#f4e1b6

protanopia

#e3e3b6 · ΔE00 7.2

deuteranopia

#e7e7b5 · ΔE00 7.3

tritanopia

#ebeb1b · ΔE00 19.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCalla at ΔE00 0.502: 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.