Transcendence
#f8f4d8
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
#f8f4d8
RGB
248, 244, 216
OKLCh
96.3% 0.037 100.4°
CIELAB (D50)
96.0, -2.0, 14.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 71 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 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -100.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.11:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b775f 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
#f8f4d8
protanopia
#f4f4d8 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#f5f5d8 · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#f6f6c9 · ΔE00 5.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSkullfire at ΔE00 0.388: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SkullfireΔE00 0.388 · #f9f5da
- Warm SunΔE00 0.534 · #faf6db
- Weathered PlasticΔE00 0.601 · #f9f4d9
- Limestone QuarryΔE00 0.648 · #f9f6db
- Thunder & LightningΔE00 0.681 · #f9f5db
- Breezy BeigeΔE00 0.693 · #f7f2d7
- Pineapple SorbetΔE00 0.73 · #f7f4da
- Campanelle NoodleΔE00 0.802 · #fcf7db
- Lemonwood PlaceΔE00 0.925 · #f9f3d7
- Portal EntranceΔE00 0.962 · #f8f6da
- Yellow DiamondΔE00 1.002 · #f6f1d7
- French 75ΔE00 1.026 · #f9f3d5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.