HueComb

Hazelwood

#fff3d5

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

#fff3d5

RGB

255, 243, 213

OKLCh

96.6% 0.041 88.8°

CIELAB (D50)

96.2, 0.6, 16.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 47 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 -100.4. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.4 and 5.6 and 13.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.10:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#81765b 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

#fff3d5

protanopia

#f4f4d5 · ΔE00 5.4

deuteranopia

#f7f7d5 · ΔE00 5.6

tritanopia

#f9f9a0 · ΔE00 13.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCashmere Sweater at ΔE00 0.67: 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.