HueComb

Meringue

#f3e4b3

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

#f3e4b3

RGB

243, 228, 179

OKLCh

91.9% 0.066 93.1°

CIELAB (D50)

90.9, -0.2, 26.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 35 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.3; on black, Lc -90.6. 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 5.3 and 5.3 and 15.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.56:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.56:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847649 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

#f3e4b3

protanopia

#e6e6b3 · ΔE00 5.3

deuteranopia

#e9e9b3 · ΔE00 5.3

tritanopia

#ecec54 · ΔE00 15.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmooth as Corn Silk at ΔE00 0.351: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Smooth as Corn SilkΔE00 0.351 · #f4e4b3
  • Bone WhiteΔE00 0.707 · #f1e1b0
  • Bad Moon YellowΔE00 0.712 · #f2e5b4
  • James BlondeΔE00 0.755 · #f2e3b5
  • MarticaΔE00 0.786 · #f4e5b7
  • Cookies and CreamΔE00 1.044 · #eee0b1
  • Oyster BisqueΔE00 1.063 · #f2e5b1
  • Tamale MaizeΔE00 1.089 · #f8e7b7
  • Butter CookieΔE00 1.118 · #f0e4b2
  • Anise FlowerΔE00 1.128 · #f4e3b5
  • Citrus RindΔE00 1.255 · #ede0ae
  • Crème de la CrèmeΔE00 1.3 · #f3e7b4

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.