HueComb

Jasmine

#fff4bb

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

#fff4bb

RGB

255, 244, 187

OKLCh

96.2% 0.074 98.4°

CIELAB (D50)

96.0, -2.5, 29.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 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 -100.0. 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 10.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827742 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

#fff4bb

protanopia

#f5f5bb · ΔE00 3.5

deuteranopia

#f7f7bb · ΔE00 3.5

tritanopia

#fafa7e · ΔE00 10.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSwiss Cheese at ΔE00 0.428: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Swiss CheeseΔE00 0.428 · #fff4b9
  • Dandelion WineΔE00 0.557 · #fcf2b9
  • Gentle YellowΔE00 0.56 · #fff5be
  • Yellow BlitzΔE00 0.647 · #fdf4bb
  • Yellow YarnΔE00 1.025 · #fef6be
  • GlowlightΔE00 1.111 · #fff6b9
  • Drop of LemonΔE00 1.231 · #fcf1bd
  • Spring ButtercupΔE00 1.314 · #fff6c2
  • Solar GlowΔE00 1.39 · #faf1bd
  • Dandelion WhisperΔE00 1.477 · #fff0b5
  • SeductionΔE00 1.497 · #fbf2bf
  • Ray of LightΔE00 1.599 · #fdf2c0

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