Butter Up
#f4e0bb
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
#f4e0bb
RGB
244, 224, 187
OKLCh
91.4% 0.053 82.9°
CIELAB (D50)
90.1, 2.9, 20.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 55 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.6; on black, Lc -89.2. 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 8.3 and 8.4 and 20.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867453 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
#f4e0bb
protanopia
#e2e2bb · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#e6e6ba · ΔE00 8.4
tritanopia
#eaea24 · ΔE00 20.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOklahoma Wheat at ΔE00 0.397: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Oklahoma WheatΔE00 0.397 · #f5e0ba
- Kettle CornΔE00 0.439 · #f6e2bd
- Nothing LessΔE00 0.443 · #f2deb9
- Pale MaizeΔE00 0.611 · #f5e1ba
- LimitlessΔE00 0.811 · #f0ddb8
- BrushstrokeΔE00 0.848 · #f1dfba
- Vanilla CustardΔE00 0.854 · #f3e0be
- CameoΔE00 0.993 · #f2debc
- Alpine Berry YellowΔE00 1.083 · #f7e0ba
- LanternΔE00 1.092 · #efddb8
- CurdΔE00 1.126 · #f8e1ba
- Cracked WheatΔE00 1.129 · #f4dfbd
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.