HueComb

Fizzy & Dizzy

#f7f5c8

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

#f7f5c8

RGB

247, 245, 200

OKLCh

96.0% 0.058 105.3°

CIELAB (D50)

95.9, -4.6, 22.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -99.7. 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

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7950 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

#f7f5c8

protanopia

#f5f5c8 · ΔE00 0.7

deuteranopia

#f6f6c8 · ΔE00 0.7

tritanopia

#f6f6c0 · ΔE00 2.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElectric Arc at ΔE00 0.848: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Electric ArcΔE00 0.848 · #f7f7cb
  • Corn FieldΔE00 1.226 · #f8f3c4
  • Spring SunΔE00 1.256 · #f1f1c6
  • Sunny MimosaΔE00 1.263 · #f5f5cc
  • Yellowed BoneΔE00 1.306 · #f6f1c4
  • Cocoa ButterΔE00 1.507 · #f5f4c1
  • Morrow WhiteΔE00 1.525 · #fcfccf
  • Apple SliceΔE00 1.548 · #f1f0bf
  • Lemon ChiffonΔE00 1.589 · #fffacd
  • Banana PuddingΔE00 1.589 · #f4efc3
  • Fine LinenΔE00 1.595 · #faf5c3
  • Almond OilΔE00 1.597 · #f4efc1

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