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Aligned Yorkshire

#a7e492
Notes

Aligned Yorkshire (#A7E492) is a soft green with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (105°, 60%, 73%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#a7e492
RGB
rgb(167, 228, 146)
HSL
hsl(105, 60%, 73%)
HWB
hwb(105 57% 11%)
OKLCH
oklch(85.8% 0.126 137.9)
HSV
hsv(105, 36%, 89%)
LAB
lab(84.88% -34.28 33.98)
LCH
lch(84.88% 48.27 135.25)
CMYK
cmyk(27%, 0%, 36%, 11%)

Etymology

Aligned
adjective

French à-ligne, to-line-up — past-participle of align. As a color modifier, aligned implies a clear-and-axis-coordinated quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-parallel-arranged elements. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to symmetrical and squared 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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Accessibility

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.

#a7e492
Original
#e9d78c
Protanopia
#e0d297
Deuteranopia
#a5dfcf
Tritanopia
#d1d1d1
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
1.48:1
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
14.16:1

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