HueComb

Pasta

#f7dfaf

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

#f7dfaf

RGB

247, 223, 175

OKLCh

91.2% 0.068 84.4°

CIELAB (D50)

89.9, 3.4, 26.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 42 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.9; on black, Lc -88.8. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.4 and 8.5 and 19.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a7447 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

#f7dfaf

protanopia

#e2e2af · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#e6e6ae · ΔE00 8.5

tritanopia

#ebeb00 · ΔE00 19.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilk Quartz at ΔE00 0.428: 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.