Demeter Green
#02cc02
A green that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#02cc02
RGB
2, 204, 2
OKLCh
73.3% 0.249 142.5°
CIELAB (D50)
71.8, -66.9, 68.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 41.9; on black, Lc -60.3. 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 22.6 and 21.9 and 59.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008b00 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
#02cc02
protanopia
#c1c100 · ΔE00 22.6
deuteranopia
#afaf20 · ΔE00 21.9
tritanopia
#9696ff · ΔE00 59.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTunic Green at ΔE00 0.045: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tunic GreenΔE00 0.045 · #00cc00
- Celestial AlienΔE00 0.234 · #11cc00
- Pressing My LuckΔE00 0.428 · #00cc11
- Monstrous GreenΔE00 0.556 · #22cc11
- Tree PythonΔE00 0.655 · #22cc00
- Candy GreenΔE00 1.349 · #33cc00
- Felwood LeavesΔE00 1.987 · #2bc51b
- Bitter Lime and DefeatΔE00 2.045 · #31cd31
- Crude BananaΔE00 2.064 · #21c40e
- Apple II LimeΔE00 2.074 · #25c40d
- Poisonous PesticideΔE00 2.12 · #32cd32
- Harlequin GreenΔE00 2.197 · #46cb18
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.