HueComb

Zucchini Noodles

#c8d07f

A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#c8d07f

RGB

200, 208, 127

OKLCh

83.3% 0.104 113.3°

CIELAB (D50)

81.5, -11.9, 39.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.5; on black, Lc -74.4. 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 8.7 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#767c2a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c8d07f

protanopia

#cfcf7f · ΔE00 2.2

deuteranopia

#cece7f · ΔE00 2.2

tritanopia

#cccca4 · ΔE00 8.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLime Sorbet Green at ΔE00 0.733: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.