Cool as a Cucumber
#c6d86b
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#c6d86b
RGB
198, 216, 107
OKLCh
84.6% 0.136 117.2°
CIELAB (D50)
83.3, -17.9, 50.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.7; on black, Lc -77.4. 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 18.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.44:1. 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
#c6d86b
protanopia
#d6d66b · ΔE00 4.5
deuteranopia
#d3d36c · ΔE00 4.4
tritanopia
#cfcfbe · ΔE00 18.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDry Seedlings at ΔE00 1.215: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dry SeedlingsΔE00 1.215 · #c7dc68
- Glow WormΔE00 1.475 · #bed565
- Citrus LimeΔE00 1.66 · #c3dc68
- Soft FernΔE00 1.673 · #c7d368
- Daiquiri GreenΔE00 1.947 · #c6d26e
- Golden HopΔE00 2.183 · #cfdd7b
- Goody GumdropΔE00 2.304 · #ccd87a
- Lustre GreenΔE00 2.389 · #bece61
- Sonic LimeΔE00 2.444 · #c5d061
- RebounderΔE00 2.538 · #bad56b
- Idocrase GreenΔE00 2.592 · #cae277
- Frog PrinceΔE00 2.607 · #bbd75a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.