HueComb

Silkworm

#eeeecc

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

#eeeecc

RGB

238, 238, 204

OKLCh

94.0% 0.045 107.2°

CIELAB (D50)

93.4, -4.2, 16.6

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 only 22% 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 8.9; on black, Lc -95.3. 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.
  • 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

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#79785a 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

#eeeecc

protanopia

#eeeecc · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#eeeecc · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#eeeecc · 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 isIced Green Apple at ΔE00 0.728: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Iced Green AppleΔE00 0.728 · #ecebc9
  • Menoth White HighlightΔE00 0.758 · #f0f1ce
  • Bling BlingΔE00 0.889 · #eef0ce
  • Passionate PauseΔE00 0.993 · #edefcb
  • Green EssenceΔE00 0.994 · #e9eac8
  • Pale CeleryΔE00 1.072 · #e9e9c7
  • Honey DoΔE00 1.15 · #ededc7
  • Sulphur WaterΔE00 1.191 · #f2f3cf
  • Monet MoonriseΔE00 1.268 · #eef0d1
  • Spilt MilkΔE00 1.27 · #f4f4d1
  • Screaming SkullΔE00 1.285 · #f0f2d2
  • Mǔ Lì Bái OysterΔE00 1.291 · #f1f2d3

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