HueComb

Thunderdome

#f6f3a7

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f6f3a7

RGB

246, 243, 167

OKLCh

94.9% 0.096 106.2°

CIELAB (D50)

94.8, -7.2, 37.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.6. 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.
  • 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

1.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7d792f 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

#f6f3a7

protanopia

#f3f3a7 · ΔE00 0.8

deuteranopia

#f4f4a7 · ΔE00 0.8

tritanopia

#f4f497 · ΔE00 2.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShalimar at ΔE00 0.699: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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