Sinsemilla
#b6bd4a
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b6bd4a
RGB
182, 189, 74
OKLCh
77.0% 0.138 112.5°
CIELAB (D50)
74.4, -13.7, 55.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.3; on black, Lc -63.1. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.03:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.37:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.37:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#777c00 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b6bd4a
protanopia
#bcbc4a · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#bbbb4a · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#baba79 · ΔE00 7.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSativa at ΔE00 1.107: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SativaΔE00 1.107 · #b5bf50
- Japanese FernΔE00 1.282 · #b5b94c
- CeleryΔE00 1.357 · #b4c04c
- HopscotchΔE00 1.518 · #afbb42
- Lush BambooΔE00 2.369 · #afbb33
- Golden PassionfruitΔE00 2.435 · #b4bb31
- Tropic CanaryΔE00 2.467 · #bcc23c
- Rainforest GlowΔE00 2.609 · #b2c346
- EnigmaΔE00 3.031 · #bdbf35
- Money BanksΔE00 3.206 · #aabe49
- Green OasisΔE00 3.233 · #b0b454
- Fluorescent LimeΔE00 3.257 · #bdc233
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.