HueComb

Noodles

#f9e3b4

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

#f9e3b4

RGB

249, 227, 180

OKLCh

92.2% 0.065 85.8°

CIELAB (D50)

91.2, 2.7, 25.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 45 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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.9; on black, Lc -91.1. 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 7.8 and 7.9 and 19.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887449 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

#f9e3b4

protanopia

#e6e6b4 · ΔE00 7.8

deuteranopia

#eaeab3 · ΔE00 7.9

tritanopia

#eeee00 · ΔE00 19.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThey Call It Mellow at ΔE00 0.566: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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