Fondue
#fdf5c4
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
#fdf5c4
RGB
253, 245, 196
OKLCh
96.4% 0.064 99.8°
CIELAB (D50)
96.3, -2.8, 24.7
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 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -100.4. 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 8.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.10:1 — fails AA
Black text
19.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at19.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7f774b 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
#fdf5c4
protanopia
#f6f6c4 · ΔE00 2.8
deuteranopia
#f7f7c4 · ΔE00 2.8
tritanopia
#f9f99e · ΔE00 8.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemon Chiffon Pie at ΔE00 0.597: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lemon Chiffon PieΔE00 0.597 · #fff7c4
- Spring ButtercupΔE00 0.776 · #fff6c2
- SeductionΔE00 0.832 · #fbf2bf
- Banana CustardΔE00 0.893 · #fcf3c5
- Cowardly CustardΔE00 1.023 · #fbf1c0
- Fine LinenΔE00 1.088 · #faf5c3
- Dancing ButterflyΔE00 1.106 · #fcf3c6
- ButterballΔE00 1.11 · #fff4c4
- Solar GlowΔE00 1.13 · #faf1bd
- Lazy Summer DayΔE00 1.14 · #fef3c3
- Ray of LightΔE00 1.167 · #fdf2c0
- BlondΔE00 1.207 · #faf0be
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.