HueComb

Walnut Milkies

#fff0cf

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

#fff0cf

RGB

255, 240, 207

OKLCh

95.9% 0.046 86.5°

CIELAB (D50)

95.4, 1.4, 17.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 39 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 -98.8. 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 6.6 and 6.7 and 15.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.13:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837558 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

#fff0cf

protanopia

#f2f2cf · ΔE00 6.6

deuteranopia

#f5f5cf · ΔE00 6.7

tritanopia

#f8f886 · ΔE00 15.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBird’s Child at ΔE00 0.613: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Bird’s ChildΔE00 0.613 · #fff1cf
  • Opal CreamΔE00 0.622 · #fceece
  • Milk FrothΔE00 0.866 · #ffeecc
  • Honey MothΔE00 0.876 · #fbeccc
  • Morning SunlightΔE00 0.885 · #fdefcc
  • Golden ImpressionΔE00 0.892 · #ffefcb
  • BiscuitΔE00 1.033 · #feedca
  • FlaxenΔE00 1.063 · #fbecc9
  • Honied WhiteΔE00 1.08 · #fcefd1
  • Bonnie CreamΔE00 1.209 · #fdefd2
  • Amarillo BebitoΔE00 1.22 · #fff1d4
  • Pappardelle NoodleΔE00 1.228 · #f9ebcc

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