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Kindled Daylight

#b7cc4a
Notes

Kindled Daylight (#B7CC4A) 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 (70°, 56%, 55%) 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
#b7cc4a
RGB
rgb(183, 204, 74)
HSL
hsl(70, 56%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(70 29% 20%)
OKLCH
oklch(80.5% 0.155 117.8)
HSV
hsv(70, 64%, 80%)
LAB
lab(78.31% -24.61 60.20)
LCH
lch(78.31% 65.03 112.24)
CMYK
cmyk(10%, 0%, 64%, 20%)

Etymology

Kindled
adjective

Old Norse kynda, to set on fire — past-participle of kindle. As a color modifier, kindled implies a saturated-and-newly-lit quality, the bright color of autumn-bonfire-and-stove-fire initial-combustion emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to ignited and aflame in usage.

Daylight
noun

Diffuse light from the sun — including atmospheric scatter, cloud reflection, and ground-bounce. Daylight as a color refers to the warm pale yellow of diffuse light through a north-facing window at noon: a soft, slightly cool warm pale yellow with the optical balance of full-spectrum daylight.

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.

#b7cc4a
Original
#d9c139
Protanopia
#d7c253
Deuteranopia
#c1c1b1
Tritanopia
#bebebe
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
1.79:1
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
11.75:1

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