Matt White
#ffffd4
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
#ffffd4
RGB
255, 255, 212
OKLCh
98.9% 0.055 107.4°
CIELAB (D50)
99.2, -5.1, 20.7
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 -106.0. 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.
- 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
1.02:1 — fails AA
Black text
20.51:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at20.51:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797952 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ffffd4
protanopia
#ffffd4 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#ffffd4 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#ffffd4 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMorrow White at ΔE00 0.812: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Morrow WhiteΔE00 0.812 · #fcfccf
- Yellow Urn OrchidΔE00 0.958 · #fffdd0
- Poetic YellowΔE00 1.105 · #fffed7
- UtepilsΔE00 1.221 · #fafad2
- Creamed ButterΔE00 1.319 · #fffcd3
- LitΔE00 1.359 · #fffed8
- Ice YellowΔE00 1.496 · #fefecd
- Sun CityΔE00 1.621 · #fffed9
- Electric ArcΔE00 1.656 · #f7f7cb
- Pumpkin SeedΔE00 1.772 · #fffdd8
- ConditionerΔE00 1.932 · #ffffcc
- Polyanthus NarcissusΔE00 1.95 · #feffcc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.