HueComb

Honeycomb Glow

#e4cf99

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

#e4cf99

RGB

228, 207, 153

OKLCh

85.9% 0.074 89.2°

CIELAB (D50)

83.9, 1.8, 29.7

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 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.7; on black, Lc -78.4. 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 7.0 and 7.1 and 16.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.68:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.68:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887542 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

#e4cf99

protanopia

#d1d199 · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#d5d598 · ΔE00 7.1

tritanopia

#dada00 · ΔE00 16.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isItalian Straw at ΔE00 1.337: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Italian StrawΔE00 1.337 · #e7d3a1
  • HamptonΔE00 1.514 · #e8d4a2
  • Garden PicketΔE00 1.611 · #e4d195
  • Desert TempleΔE00 1.626 · #ddcc99
  • Prairie LandΔE00 1.659 · #e2cc9c
  • AbstractΔE00 1.668 · #e4cb97
  • Nomadic TravelsΔE00 1.812 · #e0c997
  • Frozen FruitΔE00 1.818 · #e1ca99
  • Desert WindΔE00 1.849 · #e5d295
  • Bongo SkinΔE00 1.861 · #dece96
  • Sonoma ChardonnayΔE00 1.865 · #ddcb91
  • Palm Sugar YellowΔE00 1.87 · #edd69d

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