HueComb

Pea

#a4bf20

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

Hex

#a4bf20

RGB

164, 191, 32

OKLCh

75.8% 0.171 119.7°

CIELAB (D50)

73.3, -23.6, 67.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 uses 95% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.7; on black, Lc -61.6. 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 6.3 and 6.2 and 30.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.09:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6c7f00 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

#a4bf20

protanopia

#bcbc1f · ΔE00 6.3

deuteranopia

#b8b824 · ΔE00 6.2

tritanopia

#b2b2b6 · ΔE00 30.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Pesto at ΔE00 0.809: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Fresh PestoΔE00 0.809 · #a0bd14
  • Gross GreenΔE00 0.814 · #a0bf16
  • BahiaΔE00 1.133 · #a9c01c
  • Learning GreenΔE00 1.346 · #abc123
  • Sour LimeΔE00 1.53 · #acc326
  • Bright OliveΔE00 1.586 · #9cbb04
  • Gameboy LightΔE00 1.613 · #9bbc0f
  • SlimeΔE00 1.705 · #a7c408
  • Snot GreenΔE00 1.759 · #9dc100
  • New LimerickΔE00 1.898 · #9dc209
  • Pickled AvocadoΔE00 1.987 · #99bb11
  • Pesto di PistacchioΔE00 1.997 · #a7c437

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