HueComb

Banana Milk

#fff7ad

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

Hex

#fff7ad

RGB

255, 247, 173

OKLCh

96.5% 0.093 102.7°

CIELAB (D50)

96.6, -5.2, 36.7

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 -100.9. 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 7.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.10:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#817830 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

#fff7ad

protanopia

#f8f8ad · ΔE00 2.3

deuteranopia

#f9f9ad · ΔE00 2.3

tritanopia

#fbfb7e · ΔE00 7.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanan-Appeal at ΔE00 1.093: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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