Lime Fizz
#cfe838
A yellow that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#cfe838
RGB
207, 232, 56
OKLCh
88.3% 0.189 117.7°
CIELAB (D50)
88.0, -24.0, 75.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 92% 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 18.2; on black, Lc -85.3. 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 5.4 and 5.3 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7e00 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
#cfe838
protanopia
#e5e537 · ΔE00 5.4
deuteranopia
#e1e13b · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#dcdcca · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElectric Energy at ΔE00 1.305: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Electric EnergyΔE00 1.305 · #c9e423
- Sickly YellowΔE00 1.548 · #d0e429
- Poisonous PestoΔE00 1.786 · #cae80a
- GreenivorousΔE00 1.854 · #cae03b
- PearΔE00 1.955 · #d1e231
- Yellow DurantaΔE00 2.207 · #d8e63c
- Sour GreenΔE00 2.43 · #c1e613
- Spleen GreenΔE00 2.507 · #ccee00
- Maximum Green YellowΔE00 2.686 · #d9e650
- Stadium GrassΔE00 2.875 · #d5f534
- First Colours of SpringΔE00 2.908 · #dbe64c
- Las PalmasΔE00 3.164 · #c6da36
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.