HueComb

Cream

#ffffc2

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

#ffffc2

RGB

255, 255, 194

OKLCh

98.6% 0.078 107.7°

CIELAB (D50)

98.9, -7.0, 29.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 -105.4. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.03:1 — fails AA

Black text

20.34:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at20.34:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7941 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

#ffffc2

protanopia

#ffffc2 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#ffffc2 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#ffffc2 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSour Veil at ΔE00 0.614: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sour VeilΔE00 0.614 · #ffffbf
  • Yellow ManaΔE00 0.637 · #fdfcbf
  • Golden WashΔE00 1.082 · #fffec6
  • Golden HermesΔE00 1.405 · #ffffbb
  • Cashew CheeseΔE00 1.411 · #fcf9bd
  • Lemon SoapΔE00 1.414 · #fffcc4
  • Ice LemonΔE00 1.466 · #fffbc1
  • Break of DayΔE00 1.72 · #fffabd
  • Bright EcruΔE00 1.786 · #feffca
  • Lemon SorbetΔE00 1.792 · #fffac0
  • Twinkling LightsΔE00 1.867 · #fffac1
  • Old IvoryΔE00 1.958 · #ffffcb

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