HueComb

Parchment

#fefcaf

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

Hex

#fefcaf

RGB

254, 252, 175

OKLCh

97.5% 0.097 106.8°

CIELAB (D50)

97.8, -7.7, 37.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 0.0; on black, Lc -103.2. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.06:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7d792e 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

#fefcaf

protanopia

#fcfcaf · ΔE00 0.6

deuteranopia

#fdfdaf · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#fdfda5 · ΔE00 1.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCreamy Sunshine Pastel at ΔE00 0.647: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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