HueComb

Gentle Glow

#f6e5b9

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

#f6e5b9

RGB

246, 229, 185

OKLCh

92.5% 0.060 89.4°

CIELAB (D50)

91.5, 1.1, 23.8

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 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.3; on black, Lc -91.7. 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 6.4 and 6.4 and 17.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85754d 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

#f6e5b9

protanopia

#e7e7b9 · ΔE00 6.4

deuteranopia

#eaeab8 · ΔE00 6.4

tritanopia

#eeee4b · ΔE00 17.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBarley White at ΔE00 0.549: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.