HueComb

Moon Sugar

#f5f5da

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

#f5f5da

RGB

245, 245, 218

OKLCh

96.3% 0.035 107.0°

CIELAB (D50)

96.0, -3.3, 13.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 41 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 23% 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 -100.1. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.96:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.96:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#787860 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

#f5f5da

protanopia

#f5f5da · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#f5f5da · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#f5f5da · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYellow Avarice at ΔE00 0.313: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Yellow AvariceΔE00 0.313 · #f5f5d9
  • ShynessΔE00 0.506 · #f3f3d9
  • Praise the SunΔE00 0.509 · #f3f4d9
  • Holy WhiteΔE00 0.641 · #f5f5dc
  • Portal EntranceΔE00 0.965 · #f8f6da
  • Banana SparkesΔE00 1 · #f6f5d7
  • Warm TurbulenceΔE00 1.073 · #f3f5dc
  • Capri CreamΔE00 1.128 · #f1f0d6
  • Cream ClearΔE00 1.169 · #f1f3da
  • White NectarΔE00 1.256 · #f8f6d8
  • Chilean HeathΔE00 1.273 · #f9f7de
  • HipsterΔE00 1.316 · #f2f1d9

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