HueComb

Cornsilk

#fff8dc

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

#fff8dc

RGB

255, 248, 220

OKLCh

97.7% 0.037 95.4°

CIELAB (D50)

97.6, -1.0, 14.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 57 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 -103.0. 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 8.3 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.07:1 — fails AA

Black text

19.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at19.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7d775e 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

#fff8dc

protanopia

#f9f9dc · ΔE00 3.2

deuteranopia

#fafadc · ΔE00 3.3

tritanopia

#fbfbc1 · ΔE00 8.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBavarian Cream at ΔE00 0.486: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Bavarian CreamΔE00 0.486 · #fff9dd
  • ButtermelonΔE00 0.487 · #fff7db
  • DaystarΔE00 0.625 · #fff8da
  • Silken TofuΔE00 0.798 · #fef6d8
  • DianthaΔE00 0.819 · #fcf6dc
  • Bucatini NoodleΔE00 0.919 · #fdf5d7
  • Hot BeachΔE00 0.958 · #fff6d9
  • Campanelle NoodleΔE00 0.962 · #fcf7db
  • Alluring LightΔE00 0.968 · #fff7d8
  • Ivory CharmΔE00 0.974 · #fff6da
  • Beaming SunΔE00 0.976 · #fff8df
  • Lemon LilyΔE00 0.98 · #faf4d9

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