HueComb

Clotted Cream

#f3efcd

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

#f3efcd

RGB

243, 239, 205

OKLCh

94.7% 0.045 101.7°

CIELAB (D50)

94.1, -2.7, 17.0

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 only 35% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.8; on black, Lc -96.5. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7c7859 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

#f3efcd

protanopia

#efefcd · ΔE00 1.7

deuteranopia

#f0f0cd · ΔE00 1.7

tritanopia

#f1f1bd · ΔE00 4.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlonde Beauty at ΔE00 0.43: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Blonde BeautyΔE00 0.43 · #f2efcd
  • MinimalΔE00 0.568 · #f3eecd
  • Summer PearΔE00 1.078 · #f5f0d1
  • AdmirationΔE00 1.081 · #f6f3d3
  • Natural LightΔE00 1.169 · #f1ebc8
  • Oyster CrackerΔE00 1.216 · #f4f0d2
  • Lime BlossomΔE00 1.32 · #f4f2d3
  • Sweet JasmineΔE00 1.364 · #f9f4d4
  • Moon GlowΔE00 1.408 · #f5f3ce
  • Home SongΔE00 1.418 · #f2eec7
  • FlashpointΔE00 1.578 · #f9f2d1
  • Cotton ClothΔE00 1.613 · #faf4d4

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