HueComb

Chickery Chick

#fbe98e

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

Hex

#fbe98e

RGB

251, 233, 142

OKLCh

92.9% 0.113 98.4°

CIELAB (D50)

92.4, -2.6, 46.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.0; on black, Lc -93.0. 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 11.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.15:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.15:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#88760e 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

#fbe98e

protanopia

#ebeb8e · ΔE00 5.0

deuteranopia

#eeee8d · ΔE00 5.0

tritanopia

#f2f200 · ΔE00 11.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEast of the Sun at ΔE00 1.004: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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