Mermaid Tears
#d9e6a6
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d9e6a6
RGB
217, 230, 166
OKLCh
90.0% 0.084 117.5°
CIELAB (D50)
89.1, -12.2, 29.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.1; on black, Lc -87.6. 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 15.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#717c40 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
#d9e6a6
protanopia
#e5e5a6 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#e2e2a6 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#e0e0d6 · ΔE00 15.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHigh Hopes at ΔE00 0.969: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- High HopesΔE00 0.969 · #deeaaa
- CuriousΔE00 1.523 · #d9e49e
- Grandiflora RoseΔE00 1.552 · #e0ebaf
- Lichen GoldΔE00 1.62 · #dde7ae
- Ice Cold GreenΔE00 1.685 · #d9ebac
- Fresh UpΔE00 1.773 · #dfebb1
- Apple BobΔE00 1.856 · #d5e69d
- DaydreamΔE00 1.975 · #e3ebae
- Fresh FrappéΔE00 2 · #dbe69d
- Wedge of LimeΔE00 2.074 · #e1eca5
- Spring KissΔE00 2.161 · #e3efb2
- AwarenessΔE00 2.217 · #e3ebb1
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.