HueComb

Cheesy Frittata

#f0e093

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

Hex

#f0e093

RGB

240, 224, 147

OKLCh

90.3% 0.098 97.9°

CIELAB (D50)

89.2, -2.2, 39.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.2; on black, Lc -87.4. 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 13.1 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.79:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.79:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867729 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

#f0e093

protanopia

#e2e293 · ΔE00 4.7

deuteranopia

#e5e592 · ΔE00 4.7

tritanopia

#e8e800 · ΔE00 13.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParty Sponge Cake 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.