Sunbeam
#f5edb2
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
#f5edb2
RGB
245, 237, 178
OKLCh
93.8% 0.076 101.2°
CIELAB (D50)
93.3, -3.8, 29.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 9.2; on black, Lc -95.0. 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 7.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.19:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#807841 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
#f5edb2
protanopia
#eeeeb2 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#efefb2 · ΔE00 2.5
tritanopia
#f1f188 · ΔE00 7.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Straw at ΔE00 0.829: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Golden StrawΔE00 0.829 · #f5edae
- Veiled TreasureΔE00 0.939 · #f6edb6
- InvigoratingΔE00 1.27 · #f1eab4
- Casino LightsΔE00 1.29 · #f9f2b3
- Yellow TaffyΔE00 1.301 · #f7edb7
- Dandelion WineΔE00 1.407 · #fcf2b9
- Summer ResortΔE00 1.411 · #f7efba
- Pineapple DelightΔE00 1.472 · #f0e7a9
- FanlightΔE00 1.481 · #f2eeaf
- Yellow JasmineΔE00 1.501 · #eee8aa
- Star-StuddedΔE00 1.505 · #f7ebac
- Yellow BlitzΔE00 1.635 · #fdf4bb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.