Pisco Sour
#beeb71
A green that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#beeb71
RGB
190, 235, 113
OKLCh
88.3% 0.158 126.2°
CIELAB (D50)
88.0, -29.0, 53.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 18.0; on black, Lc -85.5. 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 9.9 and 9.8 and 45.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5f8200 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
#beeb71
protanopia
#e7e771 · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#dfdf73 · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#d6d6ff · ΔE00 45.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCucumber Milk at ΔE00 1.304: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cucumber MilkΔE00 1.304 · #c2f177
- Venomous StingΔE00 1.464 · #c6ec7a
- Green CowΔE00 1.507 · #beef69
- SuluΔE00 2.24 · #c6ea80
- InchwormΔE00 2.599 · #b2ec5d
- Green DayΔE00 3.658 · #bbee88
- Last of LettuceΔE00 3.702 · #aadd66
- Green ShimmerΔE00 3.759 · #ccfd7f
- ConiferΔE00 3.974 · #b1dd52
- Yellow Green ShadeΔE00 3.997 · #c5e384
- Honeydew PeelΔE00 4.07 · #d4fb79
- MelissaΔE00 4.104 · #b5d96b
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.