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Easy Stamen

#b3c25f
Notes

Easy Stamen (#B3C25F) 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 (69°, 45%, 57%) 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 blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b3c25f
RGB
rgb(179, 194, 95)
HSL
hsl(69, 45%, 57%)
HWB
hwb(69 37% 24%)
OKLCH
oklch(78.2% 0.126 116.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7129 0.7589 0.4248)
HSV
hsv(69, 51%, 76%)
LAB
lab(75.45% -19.64 47.54)
LCH
lch(75.45% 51.44 112.44)
CMYK
cmyk(8%, 0%, 51%, 24%)

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.

Stamen
noun

The pollen-bearing male reproductive part of a flower — the Crocus sativus stamen yields saffron, the Lilium stamen leaves orange smudges on white linen, and the Hibiscus stamen sticks out from open blooms. The color refers to a Crocus stamen with anther: a saturated, slightly cool deep yellow with the matte finish of pollen-rich anther.

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.

#b3c25f
Original
#cdb956
Protanopia
#ccbb64
Deuteranopia
#bcb9ac
Tritanopia
#b8b8b8
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
1.94:1
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
10.80:1

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
##B3C25F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7129 0.7589 0.4248)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.126

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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