HueComb

Party Sponge Cake

#eedf91

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#eedf91

RGB

238, 223, 145

OKLCh

89.8% 0.099 98.7°

CIELAB (D50)

88.8, -2.7, 40.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.0; on black, Lc -86.7. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 12.8 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.60:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.60:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#857728 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

#eedf91

protanopia

#e1e191 · ΔE00 4.3

deuteranopia

#e4e490 · ΔE00 4.4

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 12.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCheesy Frittata at ΔE00 0.451: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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