Saturn
#fae5bf
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
#fae5bf
RGB
250, 229, 191
OKLCh
92.9% 0.055 82.4°
CIELAB (D50)
92.0, 3.2, 21.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 55 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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.5; on black, Lc -92.5. 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 8.5 and 8.6 and 21.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#877452 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
#fae5bf
protanopia
#e7e7bf · ΔE00 8.5
deuteranopia
#ebebbe · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#f0f006 · ΔE00 21.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAutumn Child at ΔE00 0.376: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Autumn ChildΔE00 0.376 · #fbe6c1
- MooΔE00 0.568 · #fbe5bd
- Burnished CreamΔE00 0.759 · #fce5bf
- Kettle CornΔE00 0.783 · #f6e2bd
- SoyaΔE00 0.792 · #fae3bc
- Havana CreamΔE00 0.841 · #f9e5c2
- Spanish CreamΔE00 0.915 · #fce5c0
- Ivory OatsΔE00 0.915 · #f9e4c1
- Tiger TailΔE00 0.922 · #fee9c4
- Vanilla FrostΔE00 1.03 · #fde9c5
- Glow HomeΔE00 1.056 · #fbe8c1
- CurdΔE00 1.066 · #f8e1ba
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.