Animal Kingdom
#bcc09e
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bcc09e
RGB
188, 192, 158
OKLCh
79.6% 0.047 112.9°
CIELAB (D50)
76.7, -5.8, 16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 26% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.6; on black, Lc -66.9. 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 5.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#76795a 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
#bcc09e
protanopia
#c0c09e · ΔE00 1.7
deuteranopia
#bfbf9e · ΔE00 1.7
tritanopia
#bebeac · ΔE00 5.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChameleon Tango at ΔE00 1.046: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chameleon TangoΔE00 1.046 · #c0c2a0
- Paspalum GrassΔE00 1.44 · #b9bd97
- Sage SplendourΔE00 1.653 · #c3c6a4
- Beige and SageΔE00 1.789 · #bbc199
- RejuvenateΔE00 1.899 · #c4c7a5
- Minted LemonΔE00 2.044 · #c1c6a8
- Balance GreenΔE00 2.077 · #c3c5a7
- Quiet WatersΔE00 2.256 · #b9bea3
- EspritΔE00 2.258 · #bebd99
- Green MistΔE00 2.311 · #bfc298
- Desert Hot SpringsΔE00 2.455 · #c4c8aa
- Jardin de HierbasΔE00 2.545 · #c6caa7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.