HueComb

Banana Frappé

#ddd5b6

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

#ddd5b6

RGB

221, 213, 182

OKLCh

87.1% 0.042 95.2°

CIELAB (D50)

85.3, -0.9, 16.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 24% 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 22.3; on black, Lc -80.9. 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 9.4 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7e775a 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

#ddd5b6

protanopia

#d6d6b6 · ΔE00 3.6

deuteranopia

#d7d7b6 · ΔE00 3.7

tritanopia

#d9d994 · ΔE00 9.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHandmade Linen at ΔE00 0.493: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Handmade LinenΔE00 0.493 · #ddd6b7
  • Suna WhiteΔE00 0.819 · #dcd3b2
  • Flowering ReedΔE00 0.873 · #e1d8b8
  • New GrowthΔE00 0.915 · #dbd5b7
  • Sesame SeedΔE00 1.073 · #e1d9b8
  • Physalis PealΔE00 1.164 · #e1d8bb
  • Coconut CreamΔE00 1.2 · #e1dabb
  • Afghan HoundΔE00 1.538 · #e2d7b5
  • Alsot OliveΔE00 1.56 · #dfd5b1
  • Sahara WindΔE00 1.658 · #dfd4b7
  • WheatfieldΔE00 1.7 · #dfd7bd
  • Chinese SilkΔE00 1.705 · #d8d3b2

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