Salsa Verde
#cec754
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#cec754
RGB
206, 199, 84
OKLCh
81.3% 0.136 105.8°
CIELAB (D50)
79.2, -8.0, 56.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.2; on black, Lc -70.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.76:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#807900 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
#cec754
protanopia
#c8c854 · ΔE00 1.9
deuteranopia
#c9c954 · ΔE00 1.9
tritanopia
#caca00 · ΔE00 5.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuince at ΔE00 1.586: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- QuinceΔE00 1.586 · #d4cb60
- AnimeΔE00 1.737 · #ccc14d
- CitronΔE00 1.952 · #d5c757
- Sulphur YellowΔE00 2.056 · #ccc050
- Green SheenΔE00 2.499 · #d7c94a
- SequestaΔE00 2.523 · #d4d158
- Advertisement GreenΔE00 2.537 · #d8cb4b
- TansyΔE00 2.565 · #c7c844
- Force of NatureΔE00 2.591 · #d5ce69
- Sunlit MeadowΔE00 2.789 · #d4c350
- Nervy HueΔE00 2.895 · #d7c65b
- AcaciaΔE00 2.918 · #dbcd64
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.