Succulent Lime
#dcdd65
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#dcdd65
RGB
220, 221, 101
OKLCh
87.3% 0.142 109.5°
CIELAB (D50)
86.3, -11.8, 57.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.0; on black, Lc -82.4. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
1.44:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7b00 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
#dcdd65
protanopia
#dddd65 · ΔE00 0.3
deuteranopia
#dddd65 · ΔE00 0.3
tritanopia
#dddd6d · ΔE00 1.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBanana Chalk at ΔE00 1.165: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Banana ChalkΔE00 1.165 · #d6d963
- Green GlitterΔE00 1.394 · #dde26a
- Ripe PearΔE00 1.43 · #e1e36e
- Moist GoldΔE00 1.651 · #dbdb70
- SpeciesΔE00 1.674 · #dcd867
- FandangleΔE00 1.89 · #e4de65
- Citrus DelightΔE00 2.36 · #d0d557
- MatchaΔE00 2.393 · #d8d458
- EnergisedΔE00 2.549 · #d2d25a
- Chinese GreenΔE00 2.603 · #d0db61
- KowloonΔE00 2.841 · #e1d956
- SequestaΔE00 2.852 · #d4d158
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.