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Coruscating Yellowthroat

#cfe05b
Notes

Coruscating Yellowthroat (#CFE05B) is a true yellow with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (68°, 68%, 62%) 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
#cfe05b
RGB
rgb(207, 224, 91)
HSL
hsl(68, 68%, 62%)
HWB
hwb(68 36% 12%)
OKLCH
oklch(86.8% 0.157 115.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8241 0.8763 0.4365)
HSV
hsv(68, 59%, 88%)
LAB
lab(85.67% -23.42 61.54)
LCH
lch(85.67% 65.85 110.83)
CMYK
cmyk(8%, 0%, 59%, 12%)

Etymology

Coruscating
adjective

Latin coruscāns, flashing — present-participle of coruscāre. As a color modifier, coruscating implies a saturated-and-rapidly-flashing quality, the bright color of lightning-strike atmospheric-electrical-discharge against the night-sky. Sits at the bright-and-flashing end of the grid, parallel to flashing and flickering in usage.

Yellowthroat
noun

Geothlypis trichas, the common yellowthroat — a North American warbler whose males have a black mask and bright yellow throat. The color refers to the yellow throat patch of a male yellowthroat: a saturated, slightly red yellow with the matte finish of carotenoid-pigmented feathers. Brighter than warbler.

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.

#cfe05b
Original
#eed54c
Protanopia
#edd763
Deuteranopia
#dbd4c4
Tritanopia
#d3d3d3
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
1.45:1
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
14.47:1

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
##CFE05B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8241 0.8763 0.4365)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.157

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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