HueComb

Poached Egg

#f5d893

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

Hex

#f5d893

RGB

245, 216, 147

OKLCh

89.1% 0.093 87.7°

CIELAB (D50)

87.6, 3.6, 37.9

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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.8; on black, Lc -84.7. 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 8.8 and 8.9 and 16.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.39:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e732f 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

#f5d893

protanopia

#dcdc93 · ΔE00 8.8

deuteranopia

#e1e192 · ΔE00 8.9

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 16.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRosy Highlight at ΔE00 0.4: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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