Bergamot

#95c703

A yellow that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#95c703

RGB

149, 199, 3

OKLCh

76.6% 0.194 125.7°

CIELAB (D50)

74.6, -33.4, 72.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • 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 38.7; on black, Lc -63.7. 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 10.6 and 10.3 and 54.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.01:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#608200 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#95c703

protanopia

#c2c200 · ΔE00 10.6

deuteranopia

#baba14 · ΔE00 10.3

tritanopia

#b1b1e9 · ΔE00 54.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWaywatcher Green at ΔE00 1.279: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Waywatcher GreenΔE00 1.279 · #99cc04
  • Viric GreenΔE00 1.298 · #99cc00
  • Jewel BeetleΔE00 1.888 · #8cc90b
  • New LimerickΔE00 2.342 · #9dc209
  • Pêra RochaΔE00 2.442 · #a3ce27
  • Lucky LimeΔE00 2.48 · #9acd32
  • Snot GreenΔE00 2.649 · #9dc100
  • Fabulous FrogΔE00 2.803 · #88cc00
  • Dark Lemon LimeΔE00 2.932 · #8bbe1b
  • Growing NatureΔE00 3.007 · #88cc11
  • Green CapeΔE00 3.026 · #89ce01
  • Android GreenΔE00 3.229 · #a4c639

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