HueComb

Banana Cream

#fff49c

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

Hex

#fff49c

RGB

255, 244, 156

OKLCh

95.7% 0.109 102.1°

CIELAB (D50)

95.6, -5.2, 43.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 -99.1. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#83781a 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

#fff49c

protanopia

#f5f59c · ΔE00 3.0

deuteranopia

#f7f79c · ΔE00 3.0

tritanopia

#fafa3c · ΔE00 10.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGoldilocks at ΔE00 0.368: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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