HueComb

Banana Split

#f7eec8

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

#f7eec8

RGB

247, 238, 200

OKLCh

94.7% 0.050 96.2°

CIELAB (D50)

94.1, -1.3, 19.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 48 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 7.9; on black, Lc -96.5. 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 9.6 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.17:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.02:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.02:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7755 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

#f7eec8

protanopia

#efefc8 · ΔE00 3.7

deuteranopia

#f1f1c8 · ΔE00 3.7

tritanopia

#f2f2a0 · ΔE00 9.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTart Gelato at ΔE00 0.457: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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