HueComb

Biscuit Dough

#e8dbbd

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

#e8dbbd

RGB

232, 219, 189

OKLCh

89.4% 0.042 87.4°

CIELAB (D50)

87.9, 1.1, 16.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 43 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 34% 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 18.2; on black, Lc -85.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.0 and 6.1 and 14.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#81765a 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

#e8dbbd

protanopia

#ddddbd · ΔE00 6.0

deuteranopia

#dfdfbd · ΔE00 6.1

tritanopia

#e2e27f · ΔE00 14.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDouble Pearl Lusta at ΔE00 0.226: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Double Pearl LustaΔE00 0.226 · #e9dcbe
  • Irish CreamΔE00 0.64 · #e9dbbe
  • Deserted BeachΔE00 0.669 · #e7dbbf
  • At the BeachΔE00 0.79 · #e7d9b9
  • Golden WeaveΔE00 0.965 · #eadcc0
  • Shell HavenΔE00 1.043 · #ebdfc0
  • Golden HaystackΔE00 1.044 · #eddfc1
  • Natural RadianceΔE00 1.136 · #e7dcc1
  • CornerstoneΔE00 1.138 · #e3d7bb
  • New CreamΔE00 1.254 · #ede0c0
  • SailclothΔE00 1.3 · #ece0c4
  • Roycroft VellumΔE00 1.326 · #e8d9bd

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