Kiss a Frog
#bec187
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
#bec187
RGB
190, 193, 135
OKLCh
79.5% 0.077 110.5°
CIELAB (D50)
76.8, -7.9, 28.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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.
- 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
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
#787a43 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
#bec187
protanopia
#c1c187 · ΔE00 1.0
deuteranopia
#c0c087 · ΔE00 1.0
tritanopia
#c0c094 · ΔE00 3.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPavilion at ΔE00 0.825: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- PavilionΔE00 0.825 · #bebf84
- Misty ValleyΔE00 1.007 · #bdc389
- Early HarvestΔE00 1.167 · #b9be82
- JitterbugΔE00 1.454 · #bac08a
- Pine GladeΔE00 1.716 · #bdc07e
- Ushabti BoneΔE00 1.83 · #bbbb7f
- Grass ClothΔE00 2.154 · #b8b97e
- Krieg KhakiΔE00 2.157 · #c0bd81
- Dried CaspiaΔE00 2.232 · #b6bf7f
- Aloe PlantΔE00 2.283 · #b8ba87
- Brimstone ButterflyΔE00 2.348 · #c2c190
- Everglade GlenΔE00 2.389 · #b8c17e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.