Vanilla Cream
#f8e3ab
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
#f8e3ab
RGB
248, 227, 171
OKLCh
92.0% 0.075 89.9°
CIELAB (D50)
91.0, 1.5, 30.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 39 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 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.3; on black, Lc -90.6. 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 6.8 and 6.9 and 17.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#887540 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
#f8e3ab
protanopia
#e5e5ab · ΔE00 6.8
deuteranopia
#e9e9aa · ΔE00 6.9
tritanopia
#eeee00 · ΔE00 17.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOpen Sesame at ΔE00 0.395: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Open SesameΔE00 0.395 · #f8e2a9
- VisionaryΔE00 0.738 · #f6e0a9
- Glad YellowΔE00 0.813 · #f5e1ac
- Angelic YellowΔE00 0.88 · #f4dfa7
- Optimistic YellowΔE00 0.951 · #f5e1a6
- Gold StrandΔE00 1.033 · #f3dfa6
- Sun DustΔE00 1.101 · #f6e0a4
- Khaki CoreΔE00 1.106 · #fbe4af
- Banana ManiaΔE00 1.113 · #fbe7b2
- Gold ThreadΔE00 1.166 · #fee8b0
- Lemon FillingΔE00 1.303 · #f9e4a6
- North StarΔE00 1.322 · #f2dea4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.