Yellow Mana
#fdfcbf
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
#fdfcbf
RGB
253, 252, 191
OKLCh
97.7% 0.078 107.0°
CIELAB (D50)
98.0, -6.6, 29.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -103.6. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.06:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7941 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
#fdfcbf
protanopia
#fcfcbf · ΔE00 0.3
deuteranopia
#fcfcbf · ΔE00 0.3
tritanopia
#fcfcbb · ΔE00 1.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCream at ΔE00 0.637: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CreamΔE00 0.637 · #ffffc2
- Cashew CheeseΔE00 0.81 · #fcf9bd
- Sour VeilΔE00 0.829 · #ffffbf
- Ice LemonΔE00 1.087 · #fffbc1
- Golden WashΔE00 1.17 · #fffec6
- Lemon SoapΔE00 1.206 · #fffcc4
- Break of DayΔE00 1.244 · #fffabd
- Lemon SorbetΔE00 1.369 · #fffac0
- Golden HermesΔE00 1.468 · #ffffbb
- Twinkling LightsΔE00 1.474 · #fffac1
- Bright EcruΔE00 1.999 · #feffca
- Old IvoryΔE00 2.127 · #ffffcb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.