Crème de la Crème
#f3e7b4
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
#f3e7b4
RGB
243, 231, 180
OKLCh
92.5% 0.067 96.4°
CIELAB (D50)
91.7, -1.5, 26.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 42 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.0; on black, Lc -92.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 12.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827748 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
#f3e7b4
protanopia
#e8e8b4 · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#ebebb4 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#eded71 · ΔE00 12.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrapunto at ΔE00 0.331: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TrapuntoΔE00 0.331 · #f4e8b6
- Oyster BisqueΔE00 0.563 · #f2e5b1
- Butter CookieΔE00 0.677 · #f0e4b2
- Icy LemonadeΔE00 0.704 · #f4e8b2
- Bad Moon YellowΔE00 0.717 · #f2e5b4
- Menoth White BaseΔE00 0.785 · #f3e8b8
- Lantern LightΔE00 0.923 · #f6ebb9
- Banana BrûléeΔE00 0.956 · #f7eab9
- Pale AdobeΔE00 1.076 · #f4e9ba
- Lemon AppealΔE00 1.095 · #efe4ae
- Yellow BlissΔE00 1.12 · #f4eaba
- Easy on the EyesΔE00 1.284 · #f9ecb6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.