Alligator Alley
#c5d17b
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#c5d17b
RGB
197, 209, 123
OKLCh
83.2% 0.111 115.4°
CIELAB (D50)
81.5, -13.9, 41.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.5; on black, Lc -74.4. 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 13.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737d24 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
#c5d17b
protanopia
#d0d07b · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#cece7c · ΔE00 3.2
tritanopia
#cbcbb0 · ΔE00 13.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZucchini Noodles at ΔE00 1.19: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Zucchini NoodlesΔE00 1.19 · #c8d07f
- Greenish BeigeΔE00 1.204 · #c9d179
- Calamansi GreenΔE00 1.482 · #c4cc7a
- Lime Sorbet GreenΔE00 1.614 · #c6cd7d
- Green GeckoΔE00 1.631 · #cdd47f
- Celery GreenΔE00 1.674 · #c5cc7b
- Fool’s GoldΔE00 1.843 · #cad175
- Goody GumdropΔE00 2.035 · #ccd87a
- Greenish TanΔE00 2.046 · #bccb7a
- Gentle DillΔE00 2.072 · #c3cc6e
- Daiquiri GreenΔE00 2.21 · #c6d26e
- Lime SherbetΔE00 2.274 · #cdd78a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.