Veiled Treasure
#f6edb6
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
#f6edb6
RGB
246, 237, 182
OKLCh
94.0% 0.071 99.8°
CIELAB (D50)
93.5, -3.0, 27.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 33 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.0; on black, Lc -95.2. 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 9.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.19:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#807744 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
#f6edb6
protanopia
#eeeeb6 · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#f0f0b6 · ΔE00 2.9
tritanopia
#f1f187 · ΔE00 9.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYellow Taffy at ΔE00 0.414: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Yellow TaffyΔE00 0.414 · #f7edb7
- Summer ResortΔE00 0.683 · #f7efba
- SunbeamΔE00 0.939 · #f5edb2
- InvigoratingΔE00 0.987 · #f1eab4
- Solar GlowΔE00 1.121 · #faf1bd
- Dandelion WineΔE00 1.18 · #fcf2b9
- Sarawak White PepperΔE00 1.19 · #f4eeba
- Easy on the EyesΔE00 1.358 · #f9ecb6
- Icy LemonadeΔE00 1.385 · #f4e8b2
- Drop of LemonΔE00 1.388 · #fcf1bd
- Lantern LightΔE00 1.392 · #f6ebb9
- BlondΔE00 1.431 · #faf0be
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.