HueComb

Drover

#fbeb9b

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

Hex

#fbeb9b

RGB

251, 235, 155

OKLCh

93.5% 0.101 98.3°

CIELAB (D50)

93.0, -2.5, 40.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.9; on black, Lc -94.3. 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 13.2 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.20:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867725 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

#fbeb9b

protanopia

#eded9b · ΔE00 4.6

deuteranopia

#f0f09a · ΔE00 4.6

tritanopia

#f3f300 · ΔE00 13.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOld Yella at ΔE00 0.704: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.