HueComb

Airy Fields

#dbe0c4

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

#dbe0c4

RGB

219, 224, 196

OKLCh

89.5% 0.038 115.4°

CIELAB (D50)

88.2, -5.3, 13.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 19% 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 17.5; on black, Lc -86.1. 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

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.47:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.47:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#757960 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

#dbe0c4

protanopia

#dfdfc4 · ΔE00 2.2

deuteranopia

#dfdfc4 · ΔE00 2.2

tritanopia

#deded5 · 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 isMarble Grape at ΔE00 0.737: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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