Banana Mania
#fbe7b2
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
#fbe7b2
RGB
251, 231, 178
OKLCh
93.1% 0.071 89.8°
CIELAB (D50)
92.3, 1.3, 28.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 41 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.0; on black, Lc -93.1. 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 6.7 and 6.7 and 18.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#877544 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
#fbe7b2
protanopia
#e9e9b2 · ΔE00 6.7
deuteranopia
#ededb1 · ΔE00 6.7
tritanopia
#f1f100 · ΔE00 18.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Yoghurt at ΔE00 0.711: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Banana YoghurtΔE00 0.711 · #fae7b5
- Song of SummerΔE00 0.859 · #fce7b5
- Gold ThreadΔE00 0.863 · #fee8b0
- Lively YellowΔE00 0.947 · #ffe9b1
- Khaki CoreΔE00 1.106 · #fbe4af
- Vanilla CreamΔE00 1.113 · #f8e3ab
- SolarΔE00 1.233 · #fbeab8
- Hawaiian CreamΔE00 1.25 · #fae8b8
- Solar WindΔE00 1.257 · #fce9b9
- Glad YellowΔE00 1.304 · #f5e1ac
- WickerwareΔE00 1.382 · #fce4af
- Tamale MaizeΔE00 1.384 · #f8e7b7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.