Kiwi Kiss
#eef9c1
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#eef9c1
RGB
238, 249, 193
OKLCh
96.0% 0.073 116.8°
CIELAB (D50)
96.1, -10.5, 25.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -100.1. 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 13.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.11:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#737b48 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
#eef9c1
protanopia
#f8f8c1 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#f6f6c1 · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#f4f4e9 · ΔE00 13.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Grown at ΔE00 1.506: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh GrownΔE00 1.506 · #f0f7c4
- Fall GreenΔE00 1.81 · #ecfcbd
- ChiffonΔE00 2.008 · #f0f5bb
- Spring KissΔE00 2.48 · #e3efb2
- SnowdropΔE00 2.531 · #eeffcc
- SourΔE00 2.556 · #e5edb5
- Snow FlurryΔE00 2.581 · #eaf7c9
- Feijoa FlowerΔE00 2.753 · #edf2c3
- Porcelain EarthΔE00 2.757 · #eeffbb
- FreshmanΔE00 2.775 · #e6f2c4
- Lots of BubblesΔE00 2.808 · #e5ecb7
- Green GlacierΔE00 2.814 · #e7f0c2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.