Pear #CBF85F

About this color

#CBF85F is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.184 and its hue 124°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Pear. Black text reads best on it, at 17.13:1.

Colors that go with Pear

Matches found by rotating Pear around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Pear

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Pear, closest first.

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Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Pear, with their ΔE distance.

• Pale Lime #BEFD73 ΔE 0.020
• Light Lime Green #B9FF66 ΔE 0.024
• Light Yellow Green #CCFD7F ΔE 0.028
• Light Pea Green #C4FE82 ΔE 0.029
• Pale Lime Green #B1FF65 ΔE 0.031
• Light Lime #AEFD6C ΔE 0.032
• Key Lime #AEFF6E ΔE 0.033
• Pistachio #C0FA8B ΔE 0.039

More about Pear

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Pear

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts white
• 3 parts yellow
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #D4E663, a difference of ΔE 0.049 from Pear. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

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Codes for Pear in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Pear

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F1FAE2

   oklch(97.2% 0.033 123.8)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #CBF85F

   oklch(91.9% 0.184 123.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C7E884

   oklch(88.5% 0.132 124)

4. Step 300

   300

   #A6D500

   oklch(81% 0.201 124.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #8AB100

   oklch(70.6% 0.175 124)

6. Step 500

   500

   #769800

   oklch(63.1% 0.157 124)

7. Step 600

   600

   #638000

   oklch(55.7% 0.138 124)

8. Step 700

   700

   #536B00

   oklch(49% 0.121 123.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #435800

   oklch(42.7% 0.106 124.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #374900

    oklch(37.6% 0.094 124.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #202B00

    oklch(26.9% 0.066 123.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pear with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.