HueComb

Moon Glow

#f5f3ce

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

#f5f3ce

RGB

245, 243, 206

OKLCh

95.6% 0.048 104.7°

CIELAB (D50)

95.3, -3.8, 18.2

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 only 34% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -98.7. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.13:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7857 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

#f5f3ce

protanopia

#f3f3ce · ΔE00 0.8

deuteranopia

#f4f4ce · ΔE00 0.8

tritanopia

#f4f4c6 · ΔE00 2.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZitronenzucker at ΔE00 0.498: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • ZitronenzuckerΔE00 0.498 · #f4f3cd
  • Spilt MilkΔE00 0.987 · #f4f4d1
  • Blonde BeautyΔE00 1.208 · #f2efcd
  • Distant SearchlightΔE00 1.215 · #f2f3ce
  • Silky YoghurtΔE00 1.243 · #f2f3cd
  • Sulphur WaterΔE00 1.246 · #f2f3cf
  • Rising StarΔE00 1.351 · #f7f6d5
  • Sunny MimosaΔE00 1.357 · #f5f5cc
  • Home SongΔE00 1.379 · #f2eec7
  • Clotted CreamΔE00 1.408 · #f3efcd
  • Menoth White HighlightΔE00 1.427 · #f0f1ce
  • AdmirationΔE00 1.514 · #f6f3d3

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