Virgin Olive Oil
#e2dcab
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
#e2dcab
RGB
226, 220, 171
OKLCh
88.7% 0.064 101.8°
CIELAB (D50)
87.3, -3.5, 25.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 19.1; on black, Lc -84.3. 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 6.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.06:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.06:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e784a 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
#e2dcab
protanopia
#ddddab · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#dedeab · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#dfdf8e · ΔE00 6.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDried Palm at ΔE00 0.515: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dried PalmΔE00 0.515 · #e1dbac
- Fresh WillowΔE00 1.046 · #e1d9aa
- Buckwheat GroatsΔE00 1.089 · #e0d8a7
- Green CharmΔE00 1.776 · #e7dda7
- TonicΔE00 1.79 · #deddaa
- Kiss of LimeΔE00 1.883 · #eae2ac
- Modern ZenΔE00 1.922 · #e0deb2
- Star BrightΔE00 1.961 · #e8ddae
- SpringtimeΔE00 2.044 · #e9e5b3
- Sunny BurrataΔE00 2.082 · #eadfaa
- Spaghetti CarbonaraΔE00 2.12 · #ddddaa
- BeigeΔE00 2.167 · #e6daa6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.