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Untroubled Champagne

#b1c36a
Notes

Untroubled Champagne (#B1C36A) 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 (72°, 43%, 59%) places it in the balanced 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b1c36a
RGB
rgb(177, 195, 106)
HSL
hsl(72, 43%, 59%)
HWB
hwb(72 42% 24%)
OKLCH
oklch(78.4% 0.116 118.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7073 0.7625 0.4593)
HSV
hsv(72, 46%, 76%)
LAB
lab(75.71% -19.84 42.47)
LCH
lch(75.71% 46.88 115.03)
CMYK
cmyk(9%, 0%, 46%, 24%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Champagne
noun

The pale, slightly amber yellow of dry sparkling wine from the Champagne region of northern France — a color produced by long contact with the lees in the bottle, regardless of grape source. The color refers to the wine in a clean flute: a soft, faintly golden yellow-tan with the optical lightness of a clear liquid. Lighter than honey, warmer than cream, with the celebratory weight of a French appellation that's been protected since 1936.

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.

#b1c36a
Original
#cdba63
Protanopia
#cbbb6f
Deuteranopia
#b9bbae
Tritanopia
#b9b9b9
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
1.93:1
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
10.88:1

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
##B1C36A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7073 0.7625 0.4593)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.116

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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