HueComb

Honey Do

#ededc7

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

#ededc7

RGB

237, 237, 199

OKLCh

93.6% 0.050 107.3°

CIELAB (D50)

93.0, -4.6, 18.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 9.6; on black, Lc -94.5. 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

1.20:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.54:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.54:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#797956 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

#ededc7

protanopia

#ededc7 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#ededc7 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#ededc7 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOh Dahling at ΔE00 0.886: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Oh DahlingΔE00 0.886 · #edeec5
  • Passionate PauseΔE00 1.043 · #edefcb
  • SilkwormΔE00 1.15 · #eeeecc
  • Iced Green AppleΔE00 1.23 · #ecebc9
  • Menoth White HighlightΔE00 1.263 · #f0f1ce
  • Silky YoghurtΔE00 1.283 · #f2f3cd
  • Green EssenceΔE00 1.331 · #e9eac8
  • Distant SearchlightΔE00 1.332 · #f2f3ce
  • Pale CeleryΔE00 1.357 · #e9e9c7
  • ZitronenzuckerΔE00 1.368 · #f4f3cd
  • Sulphur WaterΔE00 1.433 · #f2f3cf
  • Spring SunΔE00 1.507 · #f1f1c6

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