HueComb

Stereotypical Duck

#fff5cf

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

#fff5cf

RGB

255, 245, 207

OKLCh

96.8% 0.050 95.0°

CIELAB (D50)

96.6, -1.0, 19.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 38 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 -101.1. 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

1.09:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807755 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

#fff5cf

protanopia

#f6f6cf · ΔE00 4.1

deuteranopia

#f8f8cf · ΔE00 4.1

tritanopia

#fafaa2 · 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 isLemon Tint at ΔE00 0.882: 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.