Gin Fizz
#f8eaca
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
#f8eaca
RGB
248, 234, 202
OKLCh
94.0% 0.045 87.2°
CIELAB (D50)
93.2, 1.2, 17.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 72 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 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.3; on black, Lc -94.8. 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 6.2 and 6.4 and 14.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.19:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827659 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
#f8eaca
protanopia
#ececca · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#eeeeca · ΔE00 6.4
tritanopia
#f1f187 · ΔE00 14.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPappardelle Noodle at ΔE00 0.39: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pappardelle NoodleΔE00 0.39 · #f9ebcc
- Summer SunshineΔE00 0.599 · #f7e8c7
- Honey MothΔE00 0.635 · #fbeccc
- Rice WineΔE00 0.698 · #f5e7c8
- Opal CreamΔE00 0.845 · #fceece
- Light CurdΔE00 0.871 · #f9e9c9
- Maiden HairΔE00 0.883 · #f5e9ca
- Orzo PastaΔE00 0.888 · #f9eacc
- FlaxenΔE00 0.969 · #fbecc9
- CottonseedΔE00 1.007 · #f5e6c7
- PipitschahΔE00 1.059 · #f5e6c4
- FoundationΔE00 1.104 · #f8e8c5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.