Mother’s Milk
#f7edca
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
#f7edca
RGB
247, 237, 202
OKLCh
94.5% 0.047 93.9°
CIELAB (D50)
93.9, -0.6, 18.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 52 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.2; on black, Lc -96.1. 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 10.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.17:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#807757 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
#f7edca
protanopia
#eeeeca · ΔE00 4.3
deuteranopia
#f0f0ca · ΔE00 4.3
tritanopia
#f2f29e · ΔE00 10.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDaybreak Sun at ΔE00 0.46: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Daybreak SunΔE00 0.46 · #f7eecb
- EtherealΔE00 0.496 · #f9eecb
- StarbrightΔE00 0.498 · #f5ecc9
- Lemon IcingΔE00 0.573 · #f6ebc8
- Shiny SilkΔE00 0.594 · #f7ecca
- Lavish LemonΔE00 0.686 · #f9efca
- Sonorous BellsΔE00 0.821 · #faf0cb
- Glittery YellowΔE00 0.862 · #f9eecd
- Lemon SachetΔE00 0.89 · #faf0cf
- Blonde ShellΔE00 0.894 · #f6edcd
- OrecchietteΔE00 0.902 · #faeecb
- Silk SailsΔE00 0.951 · #f6eecd
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.