Beurre Blanc
#ede1be
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
#ede1be
RGB
237, 225, 190
OKLCh
91.0% 0.048 91.3°
CIELAB (D50)
89.8, 0.1, 18.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.0; on black, Lc -88.8. 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 5.2 and 5.3 and 13.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817656 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
#ede1be
protanopia
#e2e2be · ΔE00 5.2
deuteranopia
#e5e5be · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#e7e784 · ΔE00 13.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClover Honey at ΔE00 1.061: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Clover HoneyΔE00 1.061 · #f0e2bc
- New CreamΔE00 1.115 · #ede0c0
- Egg NoodleΔE00 1.133 · #f1e3bd
- Creamy VanillaΔE00 1.216 · #f2e5bf
- Satin SouffleΔE00 1.22 · #efe0bc
- SauerkrautΔE00 1.244 · #eee0b9
- Shell HavenΔE00 1.268 · #ebdfc0
- Scroll of WisdomΔE00 1.28 · #f3e5c0
- Pearl YellowΔE00 1.306 · #f1e3bc
- JodhpursΔE00 1.677 · #ebdcb6
- TamaleΔE00 1.706 · #f0e4c6
- Paper DaisyΔE00 1.737 · #f0e5c7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.