HueComb

Hot Beach

#fff6d9

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

#fff6d9

RGB

255, 246, 217

OKLCh

97.3% 0.039 92.7°

CIELAB (D50)

97.0, -0.3, 15.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 55 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 -102.0. 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 10.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.08:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f765d 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

#fff6d9

protanopia

#f7f7d9 · ΔE00 4.1

deuteranopia

#f9f9d9 · ΔE00 4.2

tritanopia

#fafab4 · ΔE00 10.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIvory Charm at ΔE00 0.319: 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.