Moon Dance
#faefbe
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
#faefbe
RGB
250, 239, 190
OKLCh
94.9% 0.064 96.9°
CIELAB (D50)
94.4, -1.7, 25.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 51 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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.3; on black, Lc -97.0. 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 11.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#81774a 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
#faefbe
protanopia
#f0f0be · ΔE00 3.8
deuteranopia
#f2f2be · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#f5f585 · ΔE00 11.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlond at ΔE00 0.467: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BlondΔE00 0.467 · #faf0be
- Cowardly CustardΔE00 0.514 · #fbf1c0
- Ray of LightΔE00 0.652 · #fdf2c0
- Drop of LemonΔE00 0.788 · #fcf1bd
- Amarillo YellowΔE00 0.88 · #fbf1c3
- Lazy Summer DayΔE00 0.884 · #fef3c3
- Lantern LightΔE00 0.896 · #f6ebb9
- MoonstruckΔE00 0.909 · #fcf0c2
- Pound CakeΔE00 0.998 · #fdf1c3
- SeductionΔE00 1.01 · #fbf2bf
- Creamy CornΔE00 1.063 · #fff2c2
- Solar GlowΔE00 1.065 · #faf1bd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.