Lime It or Leave It
#8ca94a
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8ca94a
RGB
140, 169, 74
OKLCh
69.2% 0.127 123.8°
CIELAB (D50)
65.5, -21.4, 44.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.7; on black, Lc -50.2. 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 7.6 and 7.5 and 38.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.66:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#65801b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8ca94a
protanopia
#a6a64a · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#a1a14c · ΔE00 7.5
tritanopia
#9c9cb7 · ΔE00 38.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParrot Green at ΔE00 2.233: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Parrot GreenΔE00 2.233 · #8db051
- Asparagus CreamΔE00 2.258 · #96af54
- Mosquito FernΔE00 2.274 · #86a852
- GreeneryΔE00 2.471 · #80a546
- Beautiful MintΔE00 2.847 · #8da936
- Persian BeltΔE00 2.956 · #99ac4b
- Usumoegi GreenΔE00 3.001 · #8db255
- Nasturtium ShootΔE00 3.115 · #869f49
- Venus FlytrapΔE00 3.236 · #94b44c
- GoogolplexΔE00 3.329 · #93af3c
- Young BudΔE00 3.343 · #86af38
- New ShootΔE00 3.412 · #869e3e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.