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Flaming Yorkshire

#75ab00
Notes

Flaming Yorkshire (#75AB00) is a deep lime with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (79°, 100%, 34%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#75ab00
RGB
rgb(117, 171, 0)
HSL
hsl(79, 100%, 34%)
HWB
hwb(79 0% 33%)
OKLCH
oklch(67.7% 0.179 128.7)
HSV
hsv(79, 100%, 67%)
LAB
lab(64.09% -38.67 65.53)
LCH
lch(64.09% 76.09 120.55)
CMYK
cmyk(32%, 0%, 100%, 33%)

Etymology

Flaming
adjective

Old French flamme, flame — present-participle of flame. As a color modifier, flaming implies a saturated-and-fire-and-bright-color quality, the bright color of autumn-Maple-and-Oak deciduous-foliage fall-color and Yule-log fire emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to fiery and blazing in usage.

Yorkshire
noun

The English northern county — and the muted green of Yorkshire moors, sheep pastures, and the rolling Yorkshire Dales. Yorkshire color refers to a Dales sheep pasture in May: a soft, slightly muted yellow-green with the matte finish of close-cropped Calluna-and-grass moor.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

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Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#75ab00
Original
#b49e00
Protanopia
#ad9a21
Deuteranopia
#79a391
Tritanopia
#939393
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
2.77:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
7.58:1

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