Pie Crust
#f1d99f
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
#f1d99f
RGB
241, 217, 159
OKLCh
89.1% 0.079 88.1°
CIELAB (D50)
87.7, 2.5, 31.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 26 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.7; on black, Lc -84.8. 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 7.7 and 7.8 and 17.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8a743d 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
#f1d99f
protanopia
#dcdc9f · ΔE00 7.7
deuteranopia
#e0e09e · ΔE00 7.8
tritanopia
#e5e500 · ΔE00 17.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPalm Sugar Yellow at ΔE00 0.791: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Palm Sugar YellowΔE00 0.791 · #edd69d
- SplashΔE00 0.797 · #f1d79e
- Cutlery PolishΔE00 1.009 · #f4dda5
- Double CreamΔE00 1.042 · #f2d9a3
- Hazy MoonΔE00 1.144 · #f1dca1
- SoléΔE00 1.164 · #f7dda1
- UpbeatΔE00 1.382 · #f1d9a5
- Straw YellowΔE00 1.456 · #f0d696
- Roadster YellowΔE00 1.474 · #f3dea2
- Sun DeckΔE00 1.491 · #f0dca0
- Honey NectarΔE00 1.502 · #f1dda2
- Dainty DaisyΔE00 1.512 · #f5dd9d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.