HueComb

Buttered Popcorn

#fff0a4

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

Hex

#fff0a4

RGB

255, 240, 164

OKLCh

95.0% 0.097 98.4°

CIELAB (D50)

94.7, -2.6, 38.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.4. 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 14.1 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.25:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.25:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85772b 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

#fff0a4

protanopia

#f2f2a4 · ΔE00 4.3

deuteranopia

#f5f5a3 · ΔE00 4.3

tritanopia

#f8f800 · ΔE00 14.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCream and Butter at ΔE00 0.719: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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