HueComb

Pale Canary

#f1efa6

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

Hex

#f1efa6

RGB

241, 239, 166

OKLCh

93.7% 0.093 106.7°

CIELAB (D50)

93.3, -7.3, 35.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.2; on black, Lc -95.0. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7933 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

#f1efa6

protanopia

#efefa6 · ΔE00 0.6

deuteranopia

#f0f0a6 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#f0f09c · ΔE00 2.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLightly Lime at ΔE00 0.841: 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.