Savannah Grass
#babc72
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#babc72
RGB
186, 188, 114
OKLCh
77.7% 0.096 109.8°
CIELAB (D50)
74.8, -8.9, 37.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.6; on black, Lc -63.8. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
2.00:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#797a31 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
#babc72
protanopia
#bcbc72 · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#bbbb72 · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#bbbb7d · ΔE00 2.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCitrus Peel at ΔE00 1.213: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Citrus PeelΔE00 1.213 · #b7bb6b
- Kelly’s FlowerΔE00 1.224 · #babd6c
- ZoodlesΔE00 1.553 · #b8bf71
- Olive OilΔE00 1.575 · #bab86c
- Spring AheadΔE00 1.96 · #b3bb6b
- Pine GladeΔE00 1.974 · #bdc07e
- Liminal YellowΔE00 1.996 · #bbb875
- Avocado CreamΔE00 2.204 · #b7bf6b
- Mélange GreenΔE00 2.354 · #c4c476
- Lime RickeyΔE00 2.634 · #afb96a
- Soda PopΔE00 2.642 · #c3c67e
- Golden CartridgeΔE00 2.651 · #bdb76b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.