HueComb

Sprouted

#f3d48b

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

Hex

#f3d48b

RGB

243, 212, 139

OKLCh

88.0% 0.098 87.4°

CIELAB (D50)

86.4, 4.1, 40.2

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 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.9; on black, Lc -82.4. 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 9.3 and 9.4 and 15.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.60:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.60:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#907329 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

#f3d48b

protanopia

#d8d88b · ΔE00 9.3

deuteranopia

#dede8a · ΔE00 9.4

tritanopia

#e4e400 · ΔE00 15.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPierogi at ΔE00 0.557: 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.