HueComb

Sour Veil

#ffffbf

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#ffffbf

RGB

255, 255, 191

OKLCh

98.5% 0.081 107.8°

CIELAB (D50)

98.9, -7.3, 30.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 -105.3. 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.
  • All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.

Text on this colour

White text

1.03:1 — fails AA

Black text

20.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at20.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#7b7a3e 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

#ffffbf

protanopia

#ffffbf · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#ffffbf · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#ffffbf · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCream at ΔE00 0.614: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • CreamΔE00 0.614 · #ffffc2
  • Golden HermesΔE00 0.791 · #ffffbb
  • Yellow ManaΔE00 0.829 · #fdfcbf
  • Cashew CheeseΔE00 1.55 · #fcf9bd
  • Lamenters YellowΔE00 1.629 · #fffeb6
  • Golden WashΔE00 1.673 · #fffec6
  • CrèmeΔE00 1.739 · #ffffb6
  • Break of DayΔE00 1.755 · #fffabd
  • Ice LemonΔE00 1.757 · #fffbc1
  • Lemon SoapΔE00 1.875 · #fffcc4
  • Lemon SorbetΔE00 2.025 · #fffac0
  • Twinkling LightsΔE00 2.152 · #fffac1

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