Double Cream
#f2d9a3
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
#f2d9a3
RGB
242, 217, 163
OKLCh
89.3% 0.075 86.0°
CIELAB (D50)
87.8, 3.3, 30.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.4; on black, Lc -85.1. 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 8.3 and 8.4 and 18.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8b7441 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
#f2d9a3
protanopia
#dcdca3 · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#e1e1a2 · ΔE00 8.4
tritanopia
#e6e600 · ΔE00 18.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUpbeat at ΔE00 0.494: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- UpbeatΔE00 0.494 · #f1d9a5
- SplashΔE00 0.816 · #f1d79e
- Pie CrustΔE00 1.042 · #f1d99f
- Cutlery PolishΔE00 1.171 · #f4dda5
- Pecan CreamΔE00 1.205 · #f7dba6
- Clay DustΔE00 1.255 · #f8dca3
- DumplingΔE00 1.315 · #f7ddaa
- Bleached BoneΔE00 1.332 · #efd9a8
- Palm Sugar YellowΔE00 1.333 · #edd69d
- FirefliesΔE00 1.416 · #f6daa7
- SoléΔE00 1.554 · #f7dda1
- Dawn LightΔE00 1.563 · #fadfa9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.