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Easy Bavaria

#afb47f
Notes

Easy Bavaria (#AFB47F) is a true yellow with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (66°, 26%, 60%) places it in the muted band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#afb47f
RGB
rgb(175, 180, 127)
HSL
hsl(66, 26%, 60%)
HWB
hwb(66 50% 29%)
OKLCH
oklch(75.3% 0.072 112.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6898 0.7052 0.5206)
HSV
hsv(66, 29%, 71%)
LAB
lab(71.75% -10.44 26.52)
LCH
lch(71.75% 28.50 111.49)
CMYK
cmyk(3%, 0%, 29%, 29%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Bavaria
noun

The southern German region — and the diamond-pattern blue-and-white Bavarian state flag. Bavaria as a color refers specifically to the warm gold-yellow of Bavarian baroque church facades and the Lederhosen leather of traditional Bavarian dress. A saturated, slightly muted gold-yellow with the matte finish of weathered ochre lime-wash.

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.

Variations

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Harmonies

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.

#afb47f
Original
#bcaf7b
Protanopia
#bcb181
Deuteranopia
#b6aea6
Tritanopia
#afafaf
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
2.17:1
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
9.66:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##AFB47F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6898 0.7052 0.5206)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.072

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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