HueComb

Heavy Cream

#e8ddc6

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

#e8ddc6

RGB

232, 221, 198

OKLCh

90.0% 0.033 85.5°

CIELAB (D50)

88.5, 1.1, 12.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 88 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 30% 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 17.1; on black, Lc -86.6. 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 5.4 and 5.6 and 13.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807661 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

#e8ddc6

protanopia

#dedec6 · ΔE00 5.4

deuteranopia

#e0e0c6 · ΔE00 5.6

tritanopia

#e3e398 · ΔE00 13.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGramp’s Tea Cup at ΔE00 0.437: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Gramp’s Tea CupΔE00 0.437 · #e9dec8
  • Adobe WhiteΔE00 0.452 · #e6dbc4
  • Castle RidgeΔE00 0.547 · #eadec7
  • Almond PasteΔE00 0.692 · #e5dbc5
  • Cordon Bleu CrustΔE00 0.742 · #ebe0c8
  • AlmanackΔE00 0.765 · #e8dec9
  • Silicone SeductionΔE00 0.779 · #ebe0ca
  • EiderdownΔE00 0.841 · #e6dbc6
  • PearlΔE00 0.91 · #eae0c8
  • Seed PearlΔE00 0.925 · #e6dac4
  • Authentic TanΔE00 0.952 · #eaddc6
  • Irresistible BeigeΔE00 0.968 · #e6ddc6

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