Muted Lime
#d0c678
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d0c678
RGB
208, 198, 120
OKLCh
81.8% 0.100 102.0°
CIELAB (D50)
79.4, -4.5, 40.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.8; on black, Lc -71.0. 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 10.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.75:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827828 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
#d0c678
protanopia
#c7c778 · ΔE00 3.0
deuteranopia
#c9c978 · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#cbcb00 · ΔE00 10.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarch Tulip Green at ΔE00 0.959: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- March Tulip GreenΔE00 0.959 · #d4c978
- Serene SceneΔE00 1.225 · #d2c880
- Tropical MossΔE00 1.292 · #d2c478
- Spring GrassΔE00 1.319 · #d5cb7f
- DeductionΔE00 1.705 · #d4cb83
- Marsh FieldΔE00 1.832 · #d4c477
- Yellow EndiveΔE00 1.886 · #d2cc81
- Fresh SproutΔE00 1.954 · #c7c176
- Labrador’s LocksΔE00 2.118 · #d6c575
- Hay DayΔE00 2.135 · #dacd81
- Green Apple MartiniΔE00 2.287 · #d2c785
- Go Go LimeΔE00 2.445 · #c6be6b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.