Sapling
#a3c05a
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a3c05a
RGB
163, 192, 90
OKLCh
76.4% 0.133 122.8°
CIELAB (D50)
73.9, -21.8, 47.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.9; on black, Lc -62.5. 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 7.3 and 7.2 and 37.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.05:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#66800b 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
#a3c05a
protanopia
#bdbd5a · ΔE00 7.3
deuteranopia
#b8b85c · ΔE00 7.2
tritanopia
#b2b2c9 · ΔE00 37.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChinese Money Plant at ΔE00 0.798: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chinese Money PlantΔE00 0.798 · #a4be5c
- Jungle JuiceΔE00 0.988 · #a4c161
- Green GlowΔE00 1.952 · #acc65d
- Green PeridotΔE00 2.187 · #a7c668
- Middle Green YellowΔE00 2.249 · #acbf60
- Spring LimeΔE00 2.34 · #9fc65e
- Pesto GenoveseΔE00 2.445 · #9dc249
- Early SpringΔE00 2.584 · #96bc4a
- Aerobic FixΔE00 2.625 · #a2c348
- Sweet MidoriΔE00 2.749 · #a7c74f
- Happy TuneΔE00 2.755 · #96b957
- Paddy FieldΔE00 2.759 · #99bb44
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.