Nyanza Color Codes
Nyanza is a very light, vivid green with the hex code #E9FFDB, RGB values of 233, 255, 219 and an HSL value of hsl(97, 100%, 93%).
| HEX | #E9FFDB |
|---|---|
| RGB | 233, 255, 219 |
| HSL | hsl(97, 100%, 93%) |
| HSV | 97°, 14%, 100% |
| CMYK | 9%, 0%, 14%, 0% |
| LAB | 97.61, -13.45, 14.81 |
| CIELCHuv | 97.61, 26.73, 113.30° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 580 C ΔE 12.7 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
-
lightgoldenrodyellowΔE 8.3
Source Wikipedia, List of colors
Nyanza Color Hex Code
The Nyanza color hex code is #E9FFDB. Those six digits are three pairs, E9 for red, FF for green and DB for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#E9FFDB
Nyanza Color RGB Code
The Nyanza RGB code is rgb(233, 255, 219). Green carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(233, 255, 219)
Nyanza Color HSV Code
The Nyanza HSV code is 97°, 14%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 97 degrees, 14% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
97°, 14%, 100%
Nyanza Color CIELChuv Code
The Nyanza CIELCHuv code is 97.61, 26.73, 113.30°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 98 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 27 is how far it sits from grey.
97.61, 26.73, 113.30°
Tonal scale
What are Nyanza Color Palettes?
A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.
Shades, toward black
Tints, toward white
Tones, toward grey
Palettes
What are Nyanza Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #E9FFDB. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Rotate a half turn and you land on #F1DBFF, a very light, vivid violet. Maximum hue distance, which is what makes a complement read as emphasis rather than decoration. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.
Analogous
Step 30 degrees in each direction and you get #FBFFDB and #DBFFDF. Neighbouring hues hold together without effort, which is what makes analogous sets the safe choice for large areas.
Triadic
#DBE9FF and #FFDBE9 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.
Split-complementary
Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #DFDBFF and #FFDBFB. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.
Tetradic
Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #F1DBFF, and #DBFBFF with #FFDFDB. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Nyanza accessible?
Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.
White background
1.06:11.06
contrast ratio on white background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Fails | Fails |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Fails | n/a |
Black background
19.79:119.79
contrast ratio on black background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Passes | Passes |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Passes |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
At 1.06:1 against white, Nyanza is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 19.79:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.
Color vision
How Nyanza looks with color blindness
Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.
Protanopia
About 1% of men#F3F3E4
Nyanza shifts noticeably here. ΔE 13.4
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#F2F0E7
Nyanza shifts noticeably here. ΔE 16.5
No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.
Tritanopia
About 1 in 10,000#EAEBED
Nyanza shifts noticeably here. ΔE 21.3
No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.
Achromatopsia
About 1 in 30,000#F8F8F8
Nyanza shifts noticeably here. ΔE 20.0
No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.
To a deuteranope, the most common form, Nyanza reads as #F2F0E7. That is a shift of ΔE 16.5, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the green range, the other half of the red-green pair. Against a red of similar lightness it will not read as distinct, so anything depending on that contrast needs a second cue. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 21.3. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.
Snippets
Using Nyanza in code
:root {
--nyanza: #E9FFDB;
}
.example {
color: var(--nyanza);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'nyanza': '#E9FFDB',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let nyanza = Color(
red: 0.914,
green: 1.000,
blue: 0.859
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="nyanza">#E9FFDB</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const nyanza = Color(0xFFE9FFDB);