Mayonnaise
#f6eed1
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
#f6eed1
RGB
246, 238, 209
OKLCh
94.8% 0.039 94.3°
CIELAB (D50)
94.2, -0.7, 15.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 86 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.7; on black, Lc -96.6. 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 9.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7e775d 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
#f6eed1
protanopia
#efefd1 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#f0f0d1 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#f2f2b1 · ΔE00 9.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDaylily Yellow at ΔE00 0.507: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Daylily YellowΔE00 0.507 · #f8f0d2
- Belgian BlondeΔE00 0.642 · #f7efd0
- Morning MoonΔE00 0.678 · #f7eecf
- Buttered UpΔE00 0.702 · #f7f0d2
- Lewisburg LemonΔE00 0.828 · #f8f1d3
- Palest of LemonΔE00 0.92 · #f4eed1
- Blonde ShellΔE00 0.958 · #f6edcd
- TagliatelleΔE00 0.981 · #f9f2d4
- Candle WaxΔE00 1.032 · #f2eacf
- Crisp CandlelightΔE00 1.039 · #f4ebd0
- Andover CreamΔE00 1.044 · #faf0d3
- Winter WhiteΔE00 1.22 · #f5ecd2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.