White Chocolate
#f0e3c7
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
#f0e3c7
RGB
240, 227, 199
OKLCh
91.9% 0.040 86.1°
CIELAB (D50)
90.7, 1.3, 15.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 86 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 13.5; on black, Lc -90.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.1 and 6.3 and 14.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#81765c 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
#f0e3c7
protanopia
#e5e5c7 · ΔE00 6.1
deuteranopia
#e7e7c7 · ΔE00 6.3
tritanopia
#eaea8c · ΔE00 14.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJefferson Cream at ΔE00 0.219: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Jefferson CreamΔE00 0.219 · #f1e4c8
- Blonde CurlΔE00 0.407 · #efe2c5
- Putting BenchΔE00 0.411 · #f1e4c9
- Straw-BaleΔE00 0.455 · #f1e3c7
- Creamy GelatoΔE00 0.501 · #f0e2c5
- Cauliflower CreamΔE00 0.521 · #f2e4c7
- Cremini MushroomΔE00 0.695 · #f0e2c4
- Vital YellowΔE00 0.725 · #ede0c5
- SailclothΔE00 0.841 · #ece0c4
- TamaleΔE00 0.914 · #f0e4c6
- AfterglowΔE00 0.915 · #f2e3c5
- Cloud of CreamΔE00 0.93 · #f1e2c4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.