Sunny Honey
#f8f0d8
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
#f8f0d8
RGB
248, 240, 216
OKLCh
95.5% 0.033 91.7°
CIELAB (D50)
95.0, -0.1, 12.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 108 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -98.1. 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 9.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7661 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
#f8f0d8
protanopia
#f1f1d8 · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#f2f2d8 · ΔE00 4.0
tritanopia
#f4f4b9 · ΔE00 9.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Pie at ΔE00 0.209: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Banana PieΔE00 0.209 · #f7efd7
- MoonlightΔE00 0.555 · #f6eed5
- GlowΔE00 0.605 · #f9f2da
- Croissant CrumbsΔE00 0.679 · #f8efd8
- Papyrus PaperΔE00 0.701 · #f5edd6
- Pineapple FizzΔE00 0.713 · #f9f0d6
- Lemon PearlΔE00 0.739 · #f9f1db
- French Porcelain ClayΔE00 0.743 · #faf1d7
- Eternal WhiteΔE00 0.789 · #faf3dc
- Barley GroatsΔE00 0.817 · #fbf2db
- Social ButterflyΔE00 0.831 · #faf2dc
- Ruffled ClamΔE00 0.842 · #f9f2dc
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.