HueComb

White Asparagus

#eceabe

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

#eceabe

RGB

236, 234, 190

OKLCh

92.8% 0.058 105.3°

CIELAB (D50)

92.0, -4.5, 21.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 29% 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 11.3; on black, Lc -92.7. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.23:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.08:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.08:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7850 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

#eceabe

protanopia

#eaeabe · ΔE00 0.7

deuteranopia

#ebebbe · ΔE00 0.7

tritanopia

#ebebb6 · ΔE00 2.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Spring Bud at ΔE00 0.624: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pale Spring BudΔE00 0.624 · #ecebbd
  • Perfect PearΔE00 0.666 · #e9e8bb
  • BeaconΔE00 0.938 · #ebe8b9
  • Lily Scent GreenΔE00 1.296 · #e6e6bc
  • Oh DahlingΔE00 1.581 · #edeec5
  • Spring SunΔE00 1.625 · #f1f1c6
  • Banana PuddingΔE00 1.641 · #f4efc3
  • Almond OilΔE00 1.669 · #f4efc1
  • Apple SliceΔE00 1.696 · #f1f0bf
  • MissedΔE00 1.781 · #eff0c0
  • Home SongΔE00 1.852 · #f2eec7
  • Honey DoΔE00 1.869 · #ededc7

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