HueComb

Happy Skeleton

#faeed7

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

#faeed7

RGB

250, 238, 215

OKLCh

95.3% 0.033 83.7°

CIELAB (D50)

94.6, 1.4, 12.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 114 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -97.5. 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 5.8 and 6.1 and 13.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807661 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

#faeed7

protanopia

#efefd7 · ΔE00 5.8

deuteranopia

#f2f2d7 · ΔE00 6.1

tritanopia

#f4f4a5 · ΔE00 13.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPastry Dough at ΔE00 0.513: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pastry DoughΔE00 0.513 · #faedd5
  • GraciousΔE00 0.54 · #f8edd7
  • FlashlightΔE00 0.679 · #f9eed6
  • Ivory InvitationΔE00 0.731 · #fcefd6
  • Honey Oat BreadΔE00 0.734 · #faeed9
  • Dollop of CreamΔE00 0.752 · #f8ebd4
  • Desert PowderΔE00 0.773 · #fbefda
  • Antique IvoryΔE00 0.814 · #f9ecd3
  • Overnight OatsΔE00 0.831 · #fbf0db
  • Honeysuckle WhiteΔE00 0.843 · #f8ecd3
  • Antique LaceΔE00 0.919 · #fdf2db
  • Xâkestari WhiteΔE00 0.924 · #fef2dc

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