Acid
#00ff22
A green that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#00ff22
RGB
0, 255, 34
OKLCh
86.7% 0.289 143.1°
CIELAB (D50)
87.9, -78.7, 77.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 33 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.1; on black, Lc -86.5. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 24.3 and 23.6 and 54.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008a0d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#00ff22
protanopia
#f2f21d · ΔE00 24.3
deuteranopia
#dbdb37 · ΔE00 23.6
tritanopia
#bdbdff · ΔE00 54.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAcid Drop at ΔE00 0.145: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Acid DropΔE00 0.145 · #11ff22
- Cyber Neon GreenΔE00 0.171 · #00ff26
- Plastic VeggieΔE00 0.414 · #22ff22
- Hot GreenΔE00 0.419 · #25ff29
- Electric Laser LimeΔE00 0.446 · #26ff2a
- So SourΔE00 0.535 · #00ff11
- Lime on SteroidesΔE00 0.618 · #00ff0d
- New Wave GreenΔE00 0.622 · #11ff11
- Alien AbductionΔE00 0.69 · #0cff0c
- EGA GreenΔE00 0.723 · #01ff07
- Fluorescent GreenΔE00 0.737 · #08ff08
- Electric PickleΔE00 0.767 · #00ff04
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.