Moonlight
#f6eed5
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
#f6eed5
RGB
246, 238, 213
OKLCh
94.9% 0.034 92.3°
CIELAB (D50)
94.2, -0.2, 13.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 103 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 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.5; on black, Lc -96.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7660 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
#f6eed5
protanopia
#efefd5 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#f0f0d5 · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#f2f2b6 · ΔE00 9.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Pie at ΔE00 0.41: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Banana PieΔE00 0.41 · #f7efd7
- Sunny HoneyΔE00 0.555 · #f8f0d8
- Winter WhiteΔE00 0.641 · #f5ecd2
- Pineapple FizzΔE00 0.668 · #f9f0d6
- Papyrus PaperΔE00 0.706 · #f5edd6
- Apple SauceΔE00 0.758 · #f4ebd2
- French Porcelain ClayΔE00 0.821 · #faf1d7
- CandlewickΔE00 0.834 · #f2ebd3
- JannaΔE00 0.87 · #f4ebd3
- Crisp CandlelightΔE00 0.947 · #f4ebd0
- Soft CreamΔE00 0.956 · #f5efd6
- GlowΔE00 0.959 · #f9f2da
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.