Ivory Buff
#ebd999
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ebd999
RGB
235, 217, 153
OKLCh
88.5% 0.084 94.3°
CIELAB (D50)
87.1, -0.3, 34.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.7; on black, Lc -83.8. 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 5.6 and 5.6 and 15.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.41:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#877638 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
#ebd999
protanopia
#dbdb99 · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#dede98 · ΔE00 5.6
tritanopia
#e2e200 · ΔE00 15.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTainted Gold at ΔE00 0.647: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tainted GoldΔE00 0.647 · #ead795
- DemeterΔE00 0.88 · #ecda9e
- Sunny GloryΔE00 1.061 · #e8d99c
- FlourishΔE00 1.081 · #ebdc9c
- Lifeless PlanetΔE00 1.098 · #e6d699
- Gold BullionΔE00 1.192 · #eedd99
- Sun DeckΔE00 1.397 · #f0dca0
- Leaf YellowΔE00 1.515 · #e9d79e
- Pineapple SliceΔE00 1.532 · #e7d791
- Mella YellaΔE00 1.536 · #f0dda2
- Wild PrimroseΔE00 1.672 · #ebdd99
- Honey NectarΔE00 1.692 · #f1dda2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.