Seedling
#c0cba1
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#c0cba1
RGB
192, 203, 161
OKLCh
82.3% 0.058 119.6°
CIELAB (D50)
80.0, -9.3, 19.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.6; on black, Lc -72.2. 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 16.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.30:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717b54 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
#c0cba1
protanopia
#cacaa1 · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#c8c8a1 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#c6c6c6 · ΔE00 16.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarjoram at ΔE00 0.472: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MarjoramΔE00 0.472 · #bfcba2
- Dappled DaydreamΔE00 1.741 · #c5cc9f
- LandscapeΔE00 1.87 · #c1cfa9
- SeagrassΔE00 1.955 · #bcc6a2
- Wispy MintΔE00 2.122 · #bcc7a4
- New FrondΔE00 2.209 · #bacca0
- Baize GreenΔE00 2.275 · #c7cda8
- SproutΔE00 2.317 · #b8ca9d
- Pistachio PuddingΔE00 2.428 · #c6d4ac
- Pale LeafΔE00 2.464 · #bdcaa8
- Pixie GreenΔE00 2.473 · #bbcda5
- Quaking GrassΔE00 2.485 · #bbc6a4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.