Polished Pearl
#f8edd3
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
#f8edd3
RGB
248, 237, 211
OKLCh
94.8% 0.036 87.8°
CIELAB (D50)
94.1, 0.7, 14.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 98 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.8; on black, Lc -96.6. 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 5.2 and 5.4 and 12.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#80765f 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
#f8edd3
protanopia
#eeeed3 · ΔE00 5.2
deuteranopia
#f0f0d3 · ΔE00 5.4
tritanopia
#f3f3a5 · ΔE00 12.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilky Way Galaxy at ΔE00 0.42: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Milky Way GalaxyΔE00 0.42 · #faefd5
- Misty MustardΔE00 0.6 · #f7ebd1
- Half Dutch WhiteΔE00 0.628 · #fbf0d6
- MeatbunΔE00 0.665 · #f8eed3
- Lightning WhiteΔE00 0.666 · #f8edd1
- Honeysuckle WhiteΔE00 0.678 · #f8ecd3
- Mist YellowΔE00 0.731 · #f8eed6
- FlashlightΔE00 0.732 · #f9eed6
- Shoelace BeigeΔE00 0.789 · #f6ebd3
- QuinoaΔE00 0.883 · #f9ecd1
- Fresh ZestΔE00 0.931 · #f5e9cf
- Yoghurt BrûléeΔE00 0.954 · #f5e9ce
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.