HueComb

Vanilla Ice

#fdf2d1

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

#fdf2d1

RGB

253, 242, 209

OKLCh

96.1% 0.045 91.7°

CIELAB (D50)

95.7, -0.1, 17.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 54 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 85% 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 0.0; on black, Lc -99.5. 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.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.9 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.12:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807659 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

#fdf2d1

protanopia

#f3f3d1 · ΔE00 4.8

deuteranopia

#f5f5d1 · ΔE00 4.9

tritanopia

#f8f8a0 · ΔE00 11.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSummer Bliss at ΔE00 0.374: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Summer BlissΔE00 0.374 · #fcf1cf
  • Milk PunchΔE00 0.412 · #fff4d3
  • Cashmere SweaterΔE00 0.599 · #fef2d2
  • Lemon SachetΔE00 0.632 · #faf0cf
  • Glittery YellowΔE00 0.834 · #f9eecd
  • Picture PerfectΔE00 0.877 · #fbf2d1
  • Satin Cream WhiteΔE00 0.935 · #fdf3d5
  • Custard CreamΔE00 1.007 · #fbefd0
  • OrecchietteΔE00 1.045 · #faeecb
  • EtherealΔE00 1.053 · #f9eecb
  • HazelwoodΔE00 1.172 · #fff3d5
  • Yellow BeamΔE00 1.206 · #f9eed0

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