Cheerly Kiwi
#bccb08
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#bccb08
RGB
188, 203, 8
OKLCh
80.3% 0.181 115.0°
CIELAB (D50)
78.5, -19.5, 76.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.1; on black, Lc -69.5. 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 15.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.80:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.68:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.68:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737d00 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
#bccb08
protanopia
#c9c907 · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#c7c70e · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#c4c492 · ΔE00 15.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSerpent Sceptre at ΔE00 0.445: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Serpent SceptreΔE00 0.445 · #bbcc00
- Green Elisabeth ⅡΔE00 0.544 · #bbcc11
- Garlic PestoΔE00 1.02 · #bfcf00
- Luscious LeekΔE00 1.116 · #bbcc22
- Key Lime PieΔE00 1.272 · #bfc921
- Rio GrandeΔE00 1.54 · #b7c61a
- Leafy SeadragonΔE00 1.771 · #b6c406
- Chartreuse SparkΔE00 1.939 · #b5cc18
- BileΔE00 2.036 · #b5c306
- Lime RaspΔE00 2.11 · #b5ce08
- Greedy GoldΔE00 2.542 · #c4ce3b
- Lime TwistΔE00 2.681 · #c6d624
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.