Lemon Meringue
#f6e199
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f6e199
RGB
246, 225, 153
OKLCh
91.1% 0.094 93.8°
CIELAB (D50)
90.1, 0.1, 38.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 31 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 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.8; on black, Lc -88.9. 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 6.2 and 6.3 and 14.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#89752e 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
#f6e199
protanopia
#e3e399 · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#e7e798 · ΔE00 6.3
tritanopia
#ecec00 · ΔE00 14.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isButtery Croissant at ΔE00 0.573: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Buttery CroissantΔE00 0.573 · #f6e19c
- Butter RidgeΔE00 1.167 · #f9e097
- SundazeΔE00 1.175 · #fae198
- Imam Ali GoldΔE00 1.198 · #fae199
- Storm LightningΔE00 1.227 · #f9e69c
- Vis VisΔE00 1.23 · #f9e496
- Cheesy GrinΔE00 1.279 · #fae195
- Venetian YellowΔE00 1.298 · #f6e3a1
- SunbathedΔE00 1.351 · #f5dd98
- Lemon DeliciousΔE00 1.4 · #fce699
- April SunshineΔE00 1.468 · #fbe198
- Summer’s HeatΔE00 1.483 · #f9e699
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.