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Hygienic Pineapple

#efe27d
Notes

Hygienic Pineapple (#EFE27D) is a soft amber 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 (53°, 78%, 71%) 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
#efe27d
RGB
rgb(239, 226, 125)
HSL
hsl(53, 78%, 71%)
HWB
hwb(53 49% 6%)
OKLCH
oklch(90.2% 0.123 102.0)
HSV
hsv(53, 48%, 94%)
LAB
lab(89.03% -8.84 50.62)
LCH
lch(89.03% 51.39 99.91)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 5%, 48%, 6%)

Etymology

Hygienic
adjective

Greek hygieinós, healthful — derived from Hygieia (goddess of health). As a color modifier, hygienic implies a clear-and-medical-clean quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern clinical-and-hospital interior-architecture surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to sanitary and sterile in usage.

Pineapple
noun

Ananas comosus, the cultivated pineapple — domesticated in the Caribbean and South America by the Tupí and a luxury good of seventeenth-century European glasshouses, where a single fruit could cost the equivalent of thousands of dollars. The color refers to a ripe pineapple's flesh: a clean, slightly translucent gold-yellow that's brighter than honey and softer than canary, with the optical brightness of high-water-content tropical fruit.

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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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.

#efe27d
Original
#f2dc74
Protanopia
#f6e281
Deuteranopia
#fed6ca
Tritanopia
#dddddd
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
1.33:1
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
15.84:1

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