HueComb

Sailor Moonlight

#f6f1a9

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

Hex

#f6f1a9

RGB

246, 241, 169

OKLCh

94.5% 0.091 104.6°

CIELAB (D50)

94.3, -6.1, 35.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.6; on black, Lc -96.7. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e7933 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

#f6f1a9

protanopia

#f2f2a9 · ΔE00 1.4

deuteranopia

#f2f2a9 · ΔE00 1.4

tritanopia

#f3f38e · ΔE00 4.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThunderdome at ΔE00 0.933: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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