HueComb

Sun-Kissed Sands

#ffedbc

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

#ffedbc

RGB

255, 237, 188

OKLCh

94.9% 0.066 90.3°

CIELAB (D50)

94.3, 0.9, 26.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 34 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 7.6; on black, Lc -96.8. 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 6.3 and 6.3 and 17.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867548 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

#ffedbc

protanopia

#efefbc · ΔE00 6.3

deuteranopia

#f2f2bb · ΔE00 6.3

tritanopia

#f6f63a · ΔE00 17.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Buttercup at ΔE00 0.494: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Soft ButtercupΔE00 0.494 · #ffedbe
  • Pale OrganzaΔE00 0.626 · #fdebbc
  • Gnocchi BeigeΔE00 0.657 · #ffeebb
  • SolarΔE00 0.832 · #fbeab8
  • Wheaten WhiteΔE00 0.839 · #fbebbb
  • Solar WindΔE00 0.915 · #fce9b9
  • Aztec AuraΔE00 0.958 · #ffefbc
  • Egg WhiteΔE00 0.978 · #ffefc1
  • Hawaiian CreamΔE00 1.071 · #fae8b8
  • Frozen CustardΔE00 1.148 · #fbeabd
  • Summer HueΔE00 1.153 · #ffefc2
  • Crown Point CreamΔE00 1.186 · #fff0c1

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