HueComb

First Day of Summer

#f1e798

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

Hex

#f1e798

RGB

241, 231, 152

OKLCh

91.8% 0.100 101.9°

CIELAB (D50)

91.1, -4.8, 39.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.0; on black, Lc -90.9. 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 9.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827828 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

#f1e798

protanopia

#e8e898 · ΔE00 2.8

deuteranopia

#eaea98 · ΔE00 2.9

tritanopia

#ecec4c · ΔE00 9.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemonade at ΔE00 0.942: 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.