HueComb

Flashlight

#f9eed6

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

#f9eed6

RGB

249, 238, 214

OKLCh

95.2% 0.034 86.3°

CIELAB (D50)

94.5, 1.0, 13.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 112 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 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.3. 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 5.3 and 5.5 and 12.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807660 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

#f9eed6

protanopia

#efefd6 · ΔE00 5.3

deuteranopia

#f1f1d6 · ΔE00 5.5

tritanopia

#f4f4a9 · ΔE00 12.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMist Yellow at ΔE00 0.473: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mist YellowΔE00 0.473 · #f8eed6
  • Honeysuckle WhiteΔE00 0.625 · #f8ecd3
  • Shoelace BeigeΔE00 0.633 · #f6ebd3
  • Happy SkeletonΔE00 0.679 · #faeed7
  • Milky Way GalaxyΔE00 0.709 · #faefd5
  • Polished PearlΔE00 0.732 · #f8edd3
  • GraciousΔE00 0.735 · #f8edd7
  • Half Dutch WhiteΔE00 0.786 · #fbf0d6
  • Hedgehog MushroomΔE00 0.828 · #faf0da
  • Croissant CrumbsΔE00 0.916 · #f8efd8
  • Ivory InvitationΔE00 0.918 · #fcefd6
  • Antique LaceΔE00 0.922 · #fdf2db

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