HueComb

White Strawberry

#fde3b5

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

#fde3b5

RGB

253, 227, 181

OKLCh

92.6% 0.066 81.8°

CIELAB (D50)

91.6, 4.3, 26.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 39 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 92% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.3; on black, Lc -91.7. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.3 and 9.4 and 20.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b7449 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

#fde3b5

protanopia

#e6e6b5 · ΔE00 9.3

deuteranopia

#ebebb4 · ΔE00 9.4

tritanopia

#f0f000 · ΔE00 20.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoconut Scent at ΔE00 0.216: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Coconut ScentΔE00 0.216 · #fee4b6
  • Hopi MoccasinΔE00 0.423 · #ffe4b5
  • Beach TowelΔE00 0.701 · #fce3b3
  • Whisper YellowΔE00 0.707 · #ffe5b9
  • SunstitchΔE00 0.707 · #fee2b2
  • Tiffany LightΔE00 0.711 · #fde4b4
  • Lemon WhipΔE00 0.826 · #ffe6ba
  • Mouse NoseΔE00 0.858 · #ffe5b4
  • Butter CremeΔE00 0.877 · #fee5ba
  • Peach of MindΔE00 0.992 · #ffe2b4
  • Yellow EssenceΔE00 1.033 · #fce1b6
  • Parachute SilkΔE00 1.114 · #ffe2b5

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