HueComb

Pineapple Sorbet

#f7f4da

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

#f7f4da

RGB

247, 244, 218

OKLCh

96.3% 0.034 101.6°

CIELAB (D50)

95.9, -2.2, 13.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 67 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 37% 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 -99.9. 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

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7a7860 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

#f7f4da

protanopia

#f4f4da · ΔE00 1.4

deuteranopia

#f5f5da · ΔE00 1.4

tritanopia

#f5f5cf · ΔE00 3.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLimestone Quarry at ΔE00 0.505: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Limestone QuarryΔE00 0.505 · #f9f6db
  • Thunder & LightningΔE00 0.526 · #f9f5db
  • White HydrangeaΔE00 0.54 · #f9f6dd
  • SkullfireΔE00 0.571 · #f9f5da
  • Warm SunΔE00 0.68 · #faf6db
  • TranscendenceΔE00 0.73 · #f8f4d8
  • Lemon SplashΔE00 0.794 · #f9f6de
  • Chilean HeathΔE00 0.795 · #f9f7de
  • Good GracesΔE00 0.833 · #f3f0d6
  • Portal EntranceΔE00 0.883 · #f8f6da
  • Weathered PlasticΔE00 0.934 · #f9f4d9
  • Breezy BeigeΔE00 0.995 · #f7f2d7

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