№5
#f8d68b
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f8d68b
RGB
248, 214, 139
OKLCh
88.8% 0.101 86.0°
CIELAB (D50)
87.3, 5.2, 41.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.4; on black, Lc -84.1. 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 10.1 and 10.3 and 16.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.40:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#927225 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f8d68b
protanopia
#dada8b · ΔE00 10.1
deuteranopia
#e1e18a · ΔE00 10.3
tritanopia
#e8e800 · ΔE00 16.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScalloped Potatoes at ΔE00 0.393: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Scalloped PotatoesΔE00 0.393 · #f6d58b
- MiddayΔE00 0.776 · #f7d78a
- Maybe MauiΔE00 0.87 · #f6d48d
- SolariaΔE00 0.985 · #f5d68f
- Pixel CreamΔE00 1.016 · #f7d384
- SproutedΔE00 1.017 · #f3d48b
- PancakeΔE00 1.055 · #f7d788
- PierogiΔE00 1.134 · #f4d68c
- Flat BeigeΔE00 1.33 · #f7d48f
- Orange ChalkΔE00 1.338 · #fad48b
- Egg CreamΔE00 1.361 · #ffd98c
- Big Bus YellowΔE00 1.364 · #ffda8b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.