HueComb

Lazy Daisy

#f6eba1

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f6eba1

RGB

246, 235, 161

OKLCh

93.2% 0.094 100.8°

CIELAB (D50)

92.7, -4.0, 37.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.4; on black, Lc -93.7. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#83782f 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

#f6eba1

protanopia

#ececa1 · ΔE00 3.2

deuteranopia

#eeeea1 · ΔE00 3.2

tritanopia

#f1f151 · ΔE00 10.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemon Gelato at ΔE00 0.787: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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