Buttered Up
#f7f0d2
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
#f7f0d2
RGB
247, 240, 210
OKLCh
95.3% 0.040 96.2°
CIELAB (D50)
94.8, -1.2, 15.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 76 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.8. 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 8.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d775c 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
#f7f0d2
protanopia
#f1f1d2 · ΔE00 3.2
deuteranopia
#f2f2d2 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#f3f3b6 · ΔE00 8.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLewisburg Lemon at ΔE00 0.209: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lewisburg LemonΔE00 0.209 · #f8f1d3
- TagliatelleΔE00 0.417 · #f9f2d4
- Daylily YellowΔE00 0.455 · #f8f0d2
- Belgian BlondeΔE00 0.524 · #f7efd0
- Palest of LemonΔE00 0.668 · #f4eed1
- MayonnaiseΔE00 0.702 · #f6eed1
- French 75ΔE00 0.736 · #f9f3d5
- Lunar LuxuryΔE00 0.83 · #fbf4d6
- China IvoryΔE00 0.922 · #fbf3d3
- Lemonwood PlaceΔE00 0.933 · #f9f3d7
- Morning MoonΔE00 0.955 · #f7eecf
- FlashpointΔE00 0.969 · #f9f2d1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.