HueComb

Banan-Appeal

#faf3a6

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#faf3a6

RGB

250, 243, 166

OKLCh

95.2% 0.097 103.6°

CIELAB (D50)

95.1, -5.8, 38.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.1. 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 6.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.14:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#80792d 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

#faf3a6

protanopia

#f4f4a6 · ΔE00 2.0

deuteranopia

#f5f5a6 · ΔE00 2.0

tritanopia

#f6f67c · ΔE00 6.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Milk at ΔE00 1.093: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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