Limon
#f7eb73
A yellow that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f7eb73
RGB
247, 235, 115
OKLCh
92.6% 0.142 103.6°
CIELAB (D50)
92.3, -6.8, 58.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.2; on black, Lc -92.8. 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 7.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837800 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
#f7eb73
protanopia
#ecec73 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#efef72 · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#f1f100 · ΔE00 7.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCanola Oil at ΔE00 0.867: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Canola OilΔE00 0.867 · #f7eb7a
- Yellow SandΔE00 1.127 · #fdee73
- Witch HazelΔE00 1.161 · #fbf073
- Golden AureliaΔE00 1.547 · #ffee77
- Pineapple JuiceΔE00 1.762 · #f8e87b
- YellowishΔE00 1.855 · #faee66
- Marigold YellowΔE00 1.864 · #fbe870
- Hazelnut Turkish DelightΔE00 1.868 · #fce974
- Yellow SalmonberryΔE00 1.871 · #fff47c
- LimelightΔE00 2.007 · #eee96b
- Lemon VerbenaΔE00 2.024 · #f2ed6b
- Golden StaffΔE00 2.063 · #f7eb83
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.