Creamy Avocado
#d8f19c
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d8f19c
RGB
216, 241, 156
OKLCh
92.0% 0.112 122.0°
CIELAB (D50)
91.8, -18.5, 38.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.7; on black, Lc -92.3. 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 6.3 and 6.3 and 31.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6a7f2b 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
#d8f19c
protanopia
#eeee9c · ΔE00 6.3
deuteranopia
#eaea9d · ΔE00 6.3
tritanopia
#e5e5f5 · ΔE00 31.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReef Refractions at ΔE00 1.798: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Reef RefractionsΔE00 1.798 · #d1ef9f
- Mint JulepΔE00 1.85 · #def0a3
- Laced GreenΔE00 2.28 · #ccee99
- Crystal AppleΔE00 2.947 · #cee9a0
- Apple BobΔE00 3.071 · #d5e69d
- Dingy Sticky NoteΔE00 3.172 · #e6f2a2
- RefreshedΔE00 3.261 · #cfe587
- Lime MistΔE00 3.277 · #ddffaa
- Wedge of LimeΔE00 3.695 · #e1eca5
- Hawthorn BlossomΔE00 3.778 · #eeffaa
- Hitchcock MilkΔE00 3.796 · #eeffa9
- Yellow Green ShadeΔE00 3.855 · #c5e384
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.