Creamy Ivory
#eeddaa
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
#eeddaa
RGB
238, 221, 170
OKLCh
89.9% 0.069 91.8°
CIELAB (D50)
88.6, 0.4, 27.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 29 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.2; on black, Lc -86.5. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.8 and 5.9 and 17.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#857646 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
#eeddaa
protanopia
#dfdfaa · ΔE00 5.8
deuteranopia
#e2e2a9 · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#e6e60f · ΔE00 17.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStudio Cream at ΔE00 0.703: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Studio CreamΔE00 0.703 · #ebdbaa
- Bone WhiteΔE00 1.03 · #f1e1b0
- TortillaΔE00 1.041 · #efdba7
- SidecarΔE00 1.16 · #e9d9a9
- PaccheriΔE00 1.387 · #ecdfad
- Honey and CreamΔE00 1.399 · #f1ddad
- Glad YellowΔE00 1.415 · #f5e1ac
- Cookies and CreamΔE00 1.421 · #eee0b1
- Citrus RindΔE00 1.449 · #ede0ae
- Refreshing TeaΔE00 1.48 · #ebdda6
- Brilliant GoldΔE00 1.562 · #f0dbaa
- Gold StrandΔE00 1.595 · #f3dfa6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.