HueComb

French Vanilla

#efe1a7

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

#efe1a7

RGB

239, 225, 167

OKLCh

90.7% 0.076 96.2°

CIELAB (D50)

89.6, -1.4, 30.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 30 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 15.4; 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 14.1 — no blue 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

#847740 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

#efe1a7

protanopia

#e3e3a7 · ΔE00 4.5

deuteranopia

#e5e5a7 · ΔE00 4.5

tritanopia

#e8e842 · ΔE00 14.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTurning Oakleaf at ΔE00 0.665: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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