Lunar Luxury
#fbf4d6
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
#fbf4d6
RGB
251, 244, 214
OKLCh
96.5% 0.040 96.2°
CIELAB (D50)
96.2, -1.2, 15.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 70 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -100.3. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 8.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.10:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7d775c 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
#fbf4d6
protanopia
#f5f5d6 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#f6f6d6 · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#f7f7ba · ΔE00 8.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTagliatelle at ΔE00 0.413: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TagliatelleΔE00 0.413 · #f9f2d4
- Bucatini NoodleΔE00 0.515 · #fdf5d7
- French 75ΔE00 0.516 · #f9f3d5
- Frozen BananaΔE00 0.604 · #fbf5d6
- Lewisburg LemonΔE00 0.621 · #f8f1d3
- Silken TofuΔE00 0.639 · #fef6d8
- China IvoryΔE00 0.706 · #fbf3d3
- Lemonwood PlaceΔE00 0.727 · #f9f3d7
- Alluring LightΔE00 0.802 · #fff7d8
- DaystarΔE00 0.817 · #fff8da
- Cotton ClothΔE00 0.818 · #faf4d4
- Buttered UpΔE00 0.83 · #f7f0d2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.