HueComb

Cornflake

#f0e68c

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

Hex

#f0e68c

RGB

240, 230, 140

OKLCh

91.3% 0.112 102.8°

CIELAB (D50)

90.6, -5.6, 45.0

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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.9; on black, Lc -90.0. 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 10.1 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837815 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

#f0e68c

protanopia

#e7e78c · ΔE00 2.8

deuteranopia

#e9e98c · ΔE00 2.8

tritanopia

#ebeb28 · ΔE00 10.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBright Khaki at ΔE00 0.257: 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.