HueComb

Gratin Dauphinois

#e0d2a9

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

#e0d2a9

RGB

224, 210, 169

OKLCh

86.5% 0.056 91.4°

CIELAB (D50)

84.6, 0.3, 22.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 32% 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 23.6; on black, Lc -79.6. 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 5.6 and 5.6 and 15.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.96:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.96:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837650 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

#e0d2a9

protanopia

#d4d4a9 · ΔE00 5.6

deuteranopia

#d6d6a9 · ΔE00 5.6

tritanopia

#d9d956 · ΔE00 15.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMeadow Dew at ΔE00 0.748: 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.