HueComb

Candle in the Wind

#f9ebbf

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

#f9ebbf

RGB

249, 235, 191

OKLCh

94.0% 0.059 92.5°

CIELAB (D50)

93.4, -0.1, 23.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 57 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 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.2; on black, Lc -95.1. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.2 and 5.3 and 14.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#83764e 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

#f9ebbf

protanopia

#ededbf · ΔE00 5.2

deuteranopia

#efefbf · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#f2f273 · ΔE00 14.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSummer Morning at ΔE00 0.754: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Summer MorningΔE00 0.754 · #fbeec1
  • Dandelion TeaΔE00 0.82 · #f7eac1
  • RingletΔE00 0.839 · #fbedbe
  • Alexandria’s LighthouseΔE00 1.024 · #fcefc1
  • Frozen CustardΔE00 1.078 · #fbeabd
  • Sunrise GlowΔE00 1.101 · #fef0c5
  • Wheaten WhiteΔE00 1.106 · #fbebbb
  • Lemon BubbleΔE00 1.116 · #fcebbf
  • Nǎi Yóu Sè CreamΔE00 1.149 · #fdedc3
  • Rich IvoryΔE00 1.154 · #fff0c4
  • Summer HueΔE00 1.16 · #ffefc2
  • Egg WhiteΔE00 1.192 · #ffefc1

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