Creamy Lemon
#fff0b2
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fff0b2
RGB
255, 240, 178
OKLCh
95.3% 0.080 96.1°
CIELAB (D50)
94.9, -1.4, 32.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 0.0; on black, Lc -97.8. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 14.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#84763c 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
#fff0b2
protanopia
#f2f2b2 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#f5f5b1 · ΔE00 4.7
tritanopia
#f8f844 · ΔE00 14.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDandelion Whisper at ΔE00 0.629: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dandelion WhisperΔE00 0.629 · #fff0b5
- JoyousΔE00 0.704 · #ffeeb0
- Custard PuffΔE00 0.728 · #fceeae
- Lemon BlastΔE00 0.887 · #fcecad
- ThunderboltΔE00 0.944 · #fdefad
- Wood AvensΔE00 1.199 · #fbeeac
- Paper TigerΔE00 1.271 · #fdf1af
- Transparent YellowΔE00 1.35 · #ffeeaa
- Swiss CheeseΔE00 1.524 · #fff4b9
- Star-StuddedΔE00 1.539 · #f7ebac
- Dear MelissaΔE00 1.645 · #feecb3
- Lemon RoseΔE00 1.658 · #fbe9ac
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.