Sour
#e5edb5
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
#e5edb5
RGB
229, 237, 181
OKLCh
92.6% 0.073 114.5°
CIELAB (D50)
92.1, -9.5, 26.3
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 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 11.2; on black, Lc -92.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757b47 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
#e5edb5
protanopia
#ececb5 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#ebebb5 · ΔE00 2.5
tritanopia
#e9e9d3 · ΔE00 9.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAwareness at ΔE00 0.645: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AwarenessΔE00 0.645 · #e3ebb1
- Lots of BubblesΔE00 0.7 · #e5ecb7
- Cucumber CreamΔE00 0.718 · #e4ebb1
- DaydreamΔE00 1.207 · #e3ebae
- Grandiflora RoseΔE00 1.276 · #e0ebaf
- Fresh UpΔE00 1.334 · #dfebb1
- Spring KissΔE00 1.419 · #e3efb2
- Bottlebrush BlossomΔE00 1.523 · #e8edb0
- Lichen GoldΔE00 1.538 · #dde7ae
- Iced CeleryΔE00 1.8 · #e5e9b7
- Tender YellowΔE00 1.884 · #e8ebaf
- Bit of LimeΔE00 2.037 · #e1e5ac
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.