Pearl

#eae0c8

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

#eae0c8

RGB

234, 224, 200

OKLCh

90.8% 0.034 88.1°

CIELAB (D50)

89.5, 0.6, 13.1

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 31% 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 15.5; on black, Lc -88.3. 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.
deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.0 and 12.1 — no green cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7f7660 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

#eae0c8

protanopia

#e1e1c8 · ΔE00 4.9

deuteranopia

#e3e3c8 · ΔE00 5.0

tritanopia

#e5e59f · ΔE00 12.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBasmati White at ΔE00 0.222: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Basmati WhiteΔE00 0.222 · #ebe1c9
Cordon Bleu CrustΔE00 0.479 · #ebe0c8
Adobe SandΔE00 0.581 · #e8dec5
Better Than BeigeΔE00 0.655 · #ebe2cb
Pearl LustaΔE00 0.684 · #eae1c8
Light PollinateΔE00 0.759 · #ebe1cb
Country BeigeΔE00 0.76 · #eae1cb
Morocco SandΔE00 0.813 · #ece3cc
Snow on the PinesΔE00 0.85 · #ebe2cc
Ivory LaceΔE00 0.86 · #ece2cc
Irresistible BeigeΔE00 0.861 · #e6ddc6
Heavy CreamΔE00 0.91 · #e8ddc6

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