HueComb

Biscuit

#feedca

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

#feedca

RGB

254, 237, 202

OKLCh

95.1% 0.049 85.1°

CIELAB (D50)

94.5, 1.9, 19.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 45 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 94% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -97.1. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.2 and 7.4 and 17.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.18:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.18:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847556 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

#feedca

protanopia

#efefca · ΔE00 7.2

deuteranopia

#f2f2ca · ΔE00 7.4

tritanopia

#f6f66e · ΔE00 17.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilk Froth at ΔE00 0.379: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Milk FrothΔE00 0.379 · #ffeecc
  • Provence CremeΔE00 0.592 · #ffedcb
  • Senior MomentΔE00 0.641 · #fdecc7
  • Golden ImpressionΔE00 0.682 · #ffefcb
  • Frosted LemonΔE00 0.84 · #ffedc7
  • FlaxenΔE00 0.877 · #fbecc9
  • FrittataΔE00 0.88 · #feebc8
  • Walnut MilkiesΔE00 1.033 · #fff0cf
  • Honey MothΔE00 1.044 · #fbeccc
  • FoundationΔE00 1.176 · #f8e8c5
  • Light CurdΔE00 1.208 · #f9e9c9
  • Morning SunlightΔE00 1.279 · #fdefcc

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