North Star
#f2dea4
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
#f2dea4
RGB
242, 222, 164
OKLCh
90.3% 0.078 91.3°
CIELAB (D50)
89.1, 0.9, 31.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 33 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.4; on black, Lc -87.3. 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 6.4 and 6.5 and 16.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#88753e 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
#f2dea4
protanopia
#e0e0a4 · ΔE00 6.4
deuteranopia
#e4e4a3 · ΔE00 6.5
tritanopia
#e8e800 · ΔE00 16.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHoney Nectar at ΔE00 0.324: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Honey NectarΔE00 0.324 · #f1dda2
- Gold StrandΔE00 0.325 · #f3dfa6
- Roadster YellowΔE00 0.482 · #f3dea2
- Mella YellaΔE00 0.505 · #f0dda2
- Hazy MoonΔE00 0.544 · #f1dca1
- Sun DeckΔE00 0.646 · #f0dca0
- Angelic YellowΔE00 0.668 · #f4dfa7
- Optimistic YellowΔE00 0.684 · #f5e1a6
- Sun DustΔE00 0.849 · #f6e0a4
- Cutlery PolishΔE00 1.139 · #f4dda5
- VisionaryΔE00 1.174 · #f6e0a9
- Open SesameΔE00 1.219 · #f8e2a9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.