Bleached Sunflower
#fbe8a8
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fbe8a8
RGB
251, 232, 168
OKLCh
93.2% 0.084 93.5°
CIELAB (D50)
92.4, -0.0, 33.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 33 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 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.8; on black, Lc -93.3. 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 5.9 and 16.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#877638 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
#fbe8a8
protanopia
#eaeaa8 · ΔE00 5.8
deuteranopia
#eeeea7 · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#f2f200 · ΔE00 16.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemon Candy at ΔE00 0.646: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lemon CandyΔE00 0.646 · #fae8ab
- Lemon RoseΔE00 0.683 · #fbe9ac
- Rite of SpringΔE00 0.797 · #ffeba9
- Butter FingersΔE00 0.876 · #fce9ad
- Yellow CanaryΔE00 0.964 · #ffeaac
- Gold SandΔE00 1.045 · #f7e5a9
- Lemon FillingΔE00 1.093 · #f9e4a6
- Lemon BlastΔE00 1.179 · #fcecad
- Venetian YellowΔE00 1.185 · #f6e3a1
- Blended FruitΔE00 1.193 · #f8e3a4
- Sweet as HoneyΔE00 1.265 · #ffe9ac
- JoyousΔE00 1.401 · #ffeeb0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.