Zoodles
#b8bf71
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b8bf71
RGB
184, 191, 113
OKLCh
78.1% 0.102 112.9°
CIELAB (D50)
75.5, -11.3, 38.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.6; on black, Lc -64.8. 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 7.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.96:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#767b2d 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
#b8bf71
protanopia
#bebe71 · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#bdbd71 · ΔE00 2.0
tritanopia
#bcbc93 · ΔE00 7.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAvocado Cream at ΔE00 1.021: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Avocado CreamΔE00 1.021 · #b7bf6b
- Spring AheadΔE00 1.222 · #b3bb6b
- Citrus PeelΔE00 1.369 · #b7bb6b
- Kelly’s FlowerΔE00 1.402 · #babd6c
- Savannah GrassΔE00 1.553 · #babc72
- Lime RickeyΔE00 1.969 · #afb96a
- Lime LollipopΔE00 2.329 · #b4bd7a
- Everglade GlenΔE00 2.366 · #b8c17e
- Pine GladeΔE00 2.426 · #bdc07e
- Soda PopΔE00 2.557 · #c3c67e
- Beach BagΔE00 2.562 · #adb864
- Mélange GreenΔE00 2.612 · #c4c476
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.