Sassy Lime
#dfe289
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dfe289
RGB
223, 226, 137
OKLCh
89.1% 0.112 110.1°
CIELAB (D50)
88.2, -10.6, 43.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.8; on black, Lc -85.7. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7a7b1d 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
#dfe289
protanopia
#e2e289 · ΔE00 0.8
deuteranopia
#e1e189 · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#e1e199 · ΔE00 3.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrape Cassata at ΔE00 0.93: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Grape CassataΔE00 0.93 · #dfe384
- Garlic ToastΔE00 1.346 · #dddd88
- CharlockΔE00 1.367 · #e2e483
- Carolina ParakeetΔE00 1.577 · #d8df80
- Lime Juice GreenΔE00 1.849 · #e5e896
- CrescendoΔE00 2.025 · #e3df84
- Wax GreenΔE00 2.096 · #d8db8b
- Yellow PressΔE00 2.214 · #e6e382
- Pale Lime YellowΔE00 2.275 · #dfe497
- Orchid HueΔE00 2.283 · #e5e999
- Lively LaughΔE00 2.477 · #e1dd8e
- Tender SproutΔE00 2.553 · #e8e287
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.