Plastic Veggie
#22ff22
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
#22ff22
RGB
34, 255, 34
OKLCh
86.9% 0.287 142.6°
CIELAB (D50)
88.0, -77.3, 77.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 36 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 17.0; on black, Lc -86.7. 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 24.0 and 23.3 and 54.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008b03 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
#22ff22
protanopia
#f2f21d · ΔE00 24.0
deuteranopia
#dbdb37 · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#bebeff · ΔE00 54.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAcid Drop at ΔE00 0.269: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Acid DropΔE00 0.269 · #11ff22
- Hot GreenΔE00 0.283 · #25ff29
- Electric Laser LimeΔE00 0.324 · #26ff2a
- Acid RefluxΔE00 0.373 · #30ff21
- AcidΔE00 0.414 · #00ff22
- Tropical ElementsΔE00 0.442 · #33ff22
- New Wave GreenΔE00 0.461 · #11ff11
- So SourΔE00 0.482 · #00ff11
- Cyber Neon GreenΔE00 0.522 · #00ff26
- Lime on SteroidesΔE00 0.541 · #00ff0d
- Alien AbductionΔE00 0.548 · #0cff0c
- Fluorescent GreenΔE00 0.605 · #08ff08
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.