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Aglow Yolk

#e7f280
Notes

Aglow Yolk (#E7F280) is a soft 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°, 81%, 73%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
#e7f280
RGB
rgb(231, 242, 128)
HSL
hsl(66, 81%, 73%)
HWB
hwb(66 50% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(92.9% 0.139 113.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9137 0.9476 0.5606)
HSV
hsv(66, 47%, 95%)
LAB
lab(92.60% -19.58 53.38)
LCH
lch(92.60% 56.86 110.14)
CMYK
cmyk(5%, 0%, 47%, 5%)

Etymology

Aglow
adjective

Old English on-glōwan, on-glow — sharing root with glow and gleam. As a color modifier, aglow implies a saturated-and-lit-from-within quality, the bright color of fireplace-and-jack-o-lantern interior-glow-lit warm-light emission against ambient darkness. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to glowing and aflame in usage.

Yolk
noun

The yellow center of a chicken egg — colored by carotenoid pigments in the hen's feed, ranging from pale lemon (commercial barn-raised) to deep orange (pasture-raised, marigold-supplemented). The color refers to a fresh free-range yolk against the white: a saturated, slightly orange-shifted yellow with the satiny surface of a vitellus membrane. Warmer than canary, deeper than sunflower; the unifying yellow of breakfast.

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.

#e7f280
Original
#ffe976
Protanopia
#ffeb86
Deuteranopia
#f3e7d8
Tritanopia
#e7e7e7
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
1.21:1
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
17.41:1

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
##E7F280
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9137 0.9476 0.5606)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.139

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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