April Showers
#dadeb5
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
#dadeb5
RGB
218, 222, 181
OKLCh
88.7% 0.054 112.0°
CIELAB (D50)
87.4, -6.5, 19.7
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 uses only 28% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.0; on black, Lc -84.5. 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 5.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#767a54 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
#dadeb5
protanopia
#dedeb5 · ΔE00 1.5
deuteranopia
#ddddb5 · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#dcdcc4 · ΔE00 5.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Thyme at ΔE00 0.458: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Spring ThymeΔE00 0.458 · #d8dcb3
- Clean AirΔE00 0.719 · #d8ddb6
- Lime GranitaΔE00 0.731 · #dce1b8
- Timid AbsintheΔE00 1.526 · #dadfb0
- Beach GrassΔE00 1.539 · #dcddb8
- Ethereal OneΔE00 1.547 · #dedeb6
- Glass GreenΔE00 1.602 · #dcdfb0
- Kohlrabi GreenΔE00 1.796 · #d9d9b1
- Foamy LimeΔE00 1.854 · #dce2be
- Loch Modan MossΔE00 1.921 · #dfe5bf
- ZombieΔE00 2.012 · #dadead
- Carpathian DawnΔE00 2.096 · #dee3c0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.