Blond
#faf0be
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
#faf0be
RGB
250, 240, 190
OKLCh
95.1% 0.065 98.0°
CIELAB (D50)
94.7, -2.2, 25.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 49 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 0.0; on black, Lc -97.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.27:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.27:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817749 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
#faf0be
protanopia
#f1f1be · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#f3f3be · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#f5f58c · ΔE00 10.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCowardly Custard at ΔE00 0.327: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cowardly CustardΔE00 0.327 · #fbf1c0
- Moon DanceΔE00 0.467 · #faefbe
- SeductionΔE00 0.561 · #fbf2bf
- Ray of LightΔE00 0.574 · #fdf2c0
- Drop of LemonΔE00 0.587 · #fcf1bd
- Solar GlowΔE00 0.612 · #faf1bd
- Lazy Summer DayΔE00 0.938 · #fef3c3
- Amarillo YellowΔE00 1.001 · #fbf1c3
- Summer ResortΔE00 1.063 · #f7efba
- Lantern LightΔE00 1.071 · #f6ebb9
- ButterballΔE00 1.101 · #fff4c4
- Yellow TaffyΔE00 1.155 · #f7edb7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.