HueComb

Rising Star

#f7f6d5

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

#f7f6d5

RGB

247, 246, 213

OKLCh

96.5% 0.043 105.8°

CIELAB (D50)

96.3, -3.7, 16.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 40 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 34% 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 -100.7. 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

1.10:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.10:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.10:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#79785b 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

#f7f6d5

protanopia

#f6f6d5 · ΔE00 0.4

deuteranopia

#f6f6d5 · ΔE00 0.4

tritanopia

#f6f6d1 · ΔE00 1.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpilt Milk at ΔE00 0.873: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Spilt MilkΔE00 0.873 · #f4f4d1
  • Banana SparkesΔE00 0.897 · #f6f5d7
  • Citrine WhiteΔE00 0.902 · #faf7d6
  • White NectarΔE00 1.016 · #f8f6d8
  • Lime BlossomΔE00 1.055 · #f4f2d3
  • AdmirationΔE00 1.058 · #f6f3d3
  • Good MorningΔE00 1.265 · #fcfcda
  • Mǔ Lì Bái OysterΔE00 1.342 · #f1f2d3
  • Moon GlowΔE00 1.351 · #f5f3ce
  • Sulphur WaterΔE00 1.423 · #f2f3cf
  • Yellow AvariceΔE00 1.543 · #f5f5d9
  • Menoth White HighlightΔE00 1.551 · #f0f1ce

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