Sauerkraut
#eee0b9
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
#eee0b9
RGB
238, 224, 185
OKLCh
90.8% 0.053 90.6°
CIELAB (D50)
89.6, 0.5, 21.0
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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.5; on black, Lc -88.3. 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 5.7 and 5.7 and 14.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.00:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.00:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837652 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
#eee0b9
protanopia
#e2e2b9 · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#e4e4b9 · ΔE00 5.7
tritanopia
#e7e76e · ΔE00 14.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClover Honey at ΔE00 0.539: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Clover HoneyΔE00 0.539 · #f0e2bc
- Pearl YellowΔE00 0.662 · #f1e3bc
- Egg NoodleΔE00 0.736 · #f1e3bd
- JodhpursΔE00 0.997 · #ebdcb6
- Satin SouffleΔE00 1.051 · #efe0bc
- Creamy VanillaΔE00 1.157 · #f2e5bf
- Beurre BlancΔE00 1.244 · #ede1be
- Scroll of WisdomΔE00 1.269 · #f3e5c0
- BeachΔE00 1.587 · #efe4bb
- Dutch WhiteΔE00 1.683 · #f0dfbb
- Rainforest DewΔE00 1.821 · #e6dab1
- Dull Light YellowΔE00 1.848 · #e5d9b4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.