HueComb

Crème Brûlée

#ffe39b

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

Hex

#ffe39b

RGB

255, 227, 155

OKLCh

92.3% 0.095 89.1°

CIELAB (D50)

91.4, 2.8, 38.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 29 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.7; on black, Lc -91.3. 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 8.3 and 8.4 and 15.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e742c 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

#ffe39b

protanopia

#e6e69b · ΔE00 8.3

deuteranopia

#ecec9a · ΔE00 8.4

tritanopia

#f1f100 · ΔE00 15.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemon Drops at ΔE00 0.362: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Lemon DropsΔE00 0.362 · #ffe49d
  • CouscousΔE00 0.42 · #ffe29b
  • Hello YellowΔE00 0.681 · #ffe59d
  • Sign of the CrownΔE00 0.727 · #fce299
  • Hesperide Apple GoldΔE00 0.77 · #ffe296
  • April SunshineΔE00 0.846 · #fbe198
  • Cheerful HueΔE00 0.92 · #ffe195
  • Equator GlowΔE00 1.036 · #ffe6a0
  • Imam Ali GoldΔE00 1.045 · #fae199
  • SundazeΔE00 1.103 · #fae198
  • Peach Crème BrûléeΔE00 1.132 · #ffe19d
  • Polka Dot SkirtΔE00 1.159 · #fde2a0

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