Bullet Hell
#faf1c8
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
#faf1c8
RGB
250, 241, 200
OKLCh
95.5% 0.054 97.0°
CIELAB (D50)
95.1, -1.6, 21.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 50 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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -98.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f7752 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
#faf1c8
protanopia
#f2f2c8 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#f4f4c8 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#f5f59f · ΔE00 9.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHoneysuckle Vine at ΔE00 0.395: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Honeysuckle VineΔE00 0.395 · #fbf1c8
- Cotton FlossΔE00 0.467 · #f8f0c7
- Lemon TintΔE00 0.509 · #fcf3cb
- Solar LightΔE00 0.731 · #faf0c9
- Champagne TickleΔE00 0.745 · #f8eec4
- Candlelight YellowΔE00 0.84 · #f7f0c7
- Banana SplitΔE00 0.988 · #f7eec8
- Fresh HoneydewΔE00 1.003 · #f6efc5
- Pure LaughterΔE00 1.016 · #fdf5ca
- Spring LilyΔE00 1.046 · #fcf4c8
- Silk StarΔE00 1.06 · #f5eec6
- Dancing ButterflyΔE00 1.078 · #fcf3c6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.