HueComb

Butter Muffin

#f6dfb2

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

#f6dfb2

RGB

246, 223, 178

OKLCh

91.1% 0.064 84.0°

CIELAB (D50)

89.9, 3.3, 25.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 45 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 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.0; on black, Lc -88.8. 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 8.4 and 8.5 and 20.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.12:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.12:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#89744b 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

#f6dfb2

protanopia

#e2e2b2 · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#e6e6b1 · ΔE00 8.5

tritanopia

#ebeb00 · ΔE00 20.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGruyère Cheese at ΔE00 0.566: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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