Yoghurt Brûlée
#f5e9ce
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
#f5e9ce
RGB
245, 233, 206
OKLCh
93.7% 0.038 86.9°
CIELAB (D50)
92.8, 1.0, 14.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 108 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 10.0; on black, Lc -94.1. 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 5.6 and 5.8 and 13.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#81765e 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
#f5e9ce
protanopia
#eaeace · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#ededce · ΔE00 5.8
tritanopia
#efef9a · ΔE00 13.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Zest at ΔE00 0.339: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh ZestΔE00 0.339 · #f5e9cf
- Soft CandlelightΔE00 0.525 · #f7eacf
- Misty MustardΔE00 0.559 · #f7ebd1
- SawdustΔE00 0.659 · #f6e9cf
- Queenly LaughΔE00 0.81 · #f9ecd0
- QuinoaΔE00 0.819 · #f9ecd1
- Wax PoeticΔE00 0.823 · #f1e6cc
- Distressed WhiteΔE00 0.83 · #f1e6cb
- SumatraΔE00 0.87 · #f6e8cc
- Spice DelightΔE00 0.888 · #f3e9cf
- Polished PearlΔE00 0.954 · #f8edd3
- TailwindΔE00 0.956 · #f5e8cf
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.