Lime Punch
#c0d725
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#c0d725
RGB
192, 215, 37
OKLCh
83.4% 0.185 117.5°
CIELAB (D50)
82.1, -22.9, 74.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.5; on black, Lc -75.5. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 5.0 and 22.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.62:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#707e00 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
#c0d725
protanopia
#d5d524 · ΔE00 5.1
deuteranopia
#d1d129 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#ccccb8 · ΔE00 22.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYoung Grass at ΔE00 0.562: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Young GrassΔE00 0.562 · #c3d825
- Fuego VerdeΔE00 0.699 · #c2d62e
- Evening PrimroseΔE00 0.817 · #c2d61d
- Las PalmasΔE00 1.212 · #c6da36
- Lime TwistΔE00 1.501 · #c6d624
- Lime PopsicleΔE00 1.732 · #c1db3b
- Cucumber BomberΔE00 2.225 · #bbdd11
- GreenivorousΔE00 2.279 · #cae03b
- High GrassΔE00 2.286 · #bbdd00
- Lime RaspΔE00 2.351 · #b5ce08
- Garlic PestoΔE00 2.472 · #bfcf00
- Luscious LeekΔE00 2.685 · #bbcc22
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.