Silk Star
#f5eec6
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
#f5eec6
RGB
245, 238, 198
OKLCh
94.5% 0.053 99.1°
CIELAB (D50)
93.9, -2.3, 20.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 42 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 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.2; on black, Lc -96.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.17:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e7753 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
#f5eec6
protanopia
#efefc6 · ΔE00 2.8
deuteranopia
#f0f0c6 · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#f1f1a8 · ΔE00 7.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandlelight Yellow at ΔE00 0.48: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Candlelight YellowΔE00 0.48 · #f7f0c7
- Fresh HoneydewΔE00 0.551 · #f6efc5
- Cotton FlossΔE00 0.63 · #f8f0c7
- Transparent BeigeΔE00 0.745 · #f4ecc2
- Pineapple CreamΔE00 0.941 · #f2eac3
- Tart GelatoΔE00 0.968 · #f6eec9
- Banana SplitΔE00 1.048 · #f7eec8
- Bullet HellΔE00 1.06 · #faf1c8
- Pear SorbetΔE00 1.158 · #f3eac3
- LimesicleΔE00 1.2 · #f2eabf
- Home SongΔE00 1.212 · #f2eec7
- Champagne TickleΔE00 1.225 · #f8eec4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.