HueComb

Woven

#e0d1a0

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

#e0d1a0

RGB

224, 209, 160

OKLCh

86.1% 0.066 93.1°

CIELAB (D50)

84.2, -0.1, 26.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 38% 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 24.2; on black, Lc -78.9. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 5.3 and 16.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.52:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847648 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

#e0d1a0

protanopia

#d3d3a0 · ΔE00 5.3

deuteranopia

#d6d6a0 · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#d9d92e · ΔE00 16.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLunar Lander at ΔE00 0.799: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Lunar LanderΔE00 0.799 · #dece9e
  • Summer SolsticeΔE00 0.939 · #ded1a3
  • Desert TempleΔE00 1.373 · #ddcc99
  • BakeliteΔE00 1.538 · #e6d4a5
  • Twinkle ToesΔE00 1.651 · #e2d39b
  • Tahuna SandsΔE00 1.716 · #d8cc9b
  • Bongo SkinΔE00 1.785 · #dece96
  • Italian StrawΔE00 1.834 · #e7d3a1
  • Early SproutΔE00 1.901 · #e6d7a0
  • HamptonΔE00 1.933 · #e8d4a2
  • SidecarΔE00 1.981 · #e9d9a9
  • Gratin DauphinoisΔE00 2.027 · #e0d2a9

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