HueComb

Anise Biscotti

#e5d5ae

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

#e5d5ae

RGB

229, 213, 174

OKLCh

87.6% 0.054 88.4°

CIELAB (D50)

85.9, 1.3, 21.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 28 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 36% 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 21.5; on black, Lc -81.8. 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 6.5 and 6.6 and 17.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.45:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847551 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

#e5d5ae

protanopia

#d7d7ae · ΔE00 6.5

deuteranopia

#dadaae · ΔE00 6.6

tritanopia

#dddd4a · ΔE00 17.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCider Yellow at ΔE00 0.484: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cider YellowΔE00 0.484 · #e7d6af
  • Caramelised PearsΔE00 0.757 · #e7d5ad
  • Sunning DeckΔE00 0.764 · #e8d7b1
  • Russeau GoldΔE00 0.853 · #e7d6b1
  • Meadow DewΔE00 0.866 · #e2d4ad
  • Convivial YellowΔE00 1.359 · #e9d6b0
  • Gratin DauphinoisΔE00 1.36 · #e0d2a9
  • BeeswaxΔE00 1.441 · #e9d7ab
  • Cinnamon MilkΔE00 1.463 · #ebdab5
  • SandbankΔE00 1.505 · #e9d5ad
  • Duck TailΔE00 1.533 · #e9d6b1
  • Rousseau GoldΔE00 1.62 · #ead6af

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