HueComb

Malibu Sun

#fff2d9

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

#fff2d9

RGB

255, 242, 217

OKLCh

96.5% 0.036 83.8°

CIELAB (D50)

96.0, 1.6, 13.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 59 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 -100.1. 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 6.2 and 6.4 and 14.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.95:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.95:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#81755f 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

#fff2d9

protanopia

#f4f4d9 · ΔE00 6.2

deuteranopia

#f6f6d9 · ΔE00 6.4

tritanopia

#f9f9a1 · ΔE00 14.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEscargot at ΔE00 0.485: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • EscargotΔE00 0.485 · #fff1d8
  • Ivory InvitationΔE00 0.622 · #fcefd6
  • Coffee CreamΔE00 0.687 · #fff2d7
  • Antique LaceΔE00 0.958 · #fdf2db
  • Candlestick PointΔE00 0.988 · #fff1d5
  • Xâkestari WhiteΔE00 1.008 · #fef2dc
  • Stellar LightΔE00 1.024 · #fff4dd
  • Pastry DoughΔE00 1.081 · #faedd5
  • Happy SkeletonΔE00 1.089 · #faeed7
  • VardenΔE00 1.155 · #fdefd3
  • Half Dutch WhiteΔE00 1.203 · #fbf0d6
  • Pearly WhiteΔE00 1.25 · #feefd3

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