Honey Bee

#fcdfa4

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fcdfa4

RGB

252, 223, 164

OKLCh

91.4% 0.082 84.7°

CIELAB (D50)

90.2, 4.3, 32.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

31 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 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.5; on black, Lc -89.3. 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 9.2 and 9.3 and 18.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e733b 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

#fcdfa4

protanopia

#e3e3a4 · ΔE00 9.2

deuteranopia

#e8e8a3 · ΔE00 9.3

tritanopia

#eeee00 · ΔE00 18.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCape Honey at ΔE00 0.401: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Cape HoneyΔE00 0.401 · #fee0a5
Manila TintΔE00 0.655 · #ffe2a7
Cake DoughΔE00 0.694 · #fce0a8
Midday SunΔE00 0.772 · #ffe1a3
Clay DustΔE00 0.821 · #f8dca3
La Luna AmarillaΔE00 0.834 · #fddfa0
Bachimitsu GoldΔE00 0.865 · #fddea5
Sunflower SeedΔE00 0.904 · #ffe3a9
First Day of SchoolΔE00 1 · #fadba0
Dawn LightΔE00 1.129 · #fadfa9
SoléΔE00 1.161 · #f7dda1
Essentially BrightΔE00 1.251 · #ffde9f

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