Electric Laser Lime
#26ff2a
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
#26ff2a
RGB
38, 255, 42
OKLCh
87.0% 0.284 142.8°
CIELAB (D50)
88.1, -76.7, 76.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 16.9; 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 23.2 and 53.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008a06 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
#26ff2a
protanopia
#f2f226 · ΔE00 24.0
deuteranopia
#dcdc3c · ΔE00 23.2
tritanopia
#bebeff · ΔE00 53.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Green at ΔE00 0.042: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hot GreenΔE00 0.042 · #25ff29
- Plastic VeggieΔE00 0.324 · #22ff22
- Acid DropΔE00 0.356 · #11ff22
- Cyber Neon GreenΔE00 0.438 · #00ff26
- AcidΔE00 0.446 · #00ff22
- Acid RefluxΔE00 0.579 · #30ff21
- Tropical ElementsΔE00 0.62 · #33ff22
- So SourΔE00 0.772 · #00ff11
- New Wave GreenΔE00 0.777 · #11ff11
- Lime on SteroidesΔE00 0.842 · #00ff0d
- Lucent LimeΔE00 0.857 · #00ff33
- Alien AbductionΔE00 0.864 · #0cff0c
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.