HueComb

Homoeopathic Yellow

#ede7d7

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#ede7d7

RGB

237, 231, 215

OKLCh

92.8% 0.022 89.8°

CIELAB (D50)

91.8, 0.1, 8.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 171 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 25% 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 11.6; on black, Lc -92.4. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.23:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.01:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.01:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7668 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

#ede7d7

protanopia

#e8e8d7 · ΔE00 3.1

deuteranopia

#e9e9d7 · ΔE00 3.2

tritanopia

#eaeac1 · ΔE00 8.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilk Paint at ΔE00 0.431: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Milk PaintΔE00 0.431 · #efe9d9
  • Restful WhiteΔE00 0.434 · #eee8d7
  • Diffused LightΔE00 0.435 · #ebe5d5
  • Old Yellow BricksΔE00 0.442 · #ece6d7
  • Antique WhiteΔE00 0.454 · #ece6d5
  • EdelweissΔE00 0.46 · #eee8d9
  • Pale LinenΔE00 0.573 · #ebe5d6
  • Eastern WindΔE00 0.579 · #ede6d5
  • Wings of an AngelΔE00 0.597 · #efe8d7
  • Historic WhiteΔE00 0.609 · #ebe6d7
  • Calcium RockΔE00 0.634 · #eee9d9
  • Ivory SteamΔE00 0.645 · #f0eada

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