HueComb

Pancake

#f7d788

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

Hex

#f7d788

RGB

247, 215, 136

OKLCh

88.9% 0.104 88.2°

CIELAB (D50)

87.4, 4.1, 43.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 33 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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.2; on black, Lc -84.3. 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.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.4 and 9.5 and 15.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.40:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#91731f 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

#f7d788

protanopia

#dbdb88 · ΔE00 9.4

deuteranopia

#e1e187 · ΔE00 9.5

tritanopia

#e8e800 · ΔE00 15.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidday at ΔE00 0.363: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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