Satin Lime
#33ee00
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
#33ee00
RGB
51, 238, 0
OKLCh
82.7% 0.274 141.3°
CIELAB (D50)
82.9, -71.9, 77.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 25.3; on black, Lc -77.8. 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 22.8 and 22.2 and 56.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.37:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.37:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#198a00 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
#33ee00
protanopia
#e2e200 · ΔE00 22.8
deuteranopia
#cece25 · ΔE00 22.2
tritanopia
#b3b3ff · ΔE00 56.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVivid Green at ΔE00 0.432: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vivid GreenΔE00 0.432 · #2fef10
- Nuclear MeltdownΔE00 0.733 · #44ee00
- Squeeze Toy AlienΔE00 0.819 · #11ee00
- Delightful GreenΔE00 0.986 · #00ee00
- BecquerelΔE00 1.031 · #4bec13
- Boiling AcidΔE00 1.197 · #00ee11
- Out of Left FieldΔE00 1.609 · #2ced2b
- Acid PoolΔE00 1.686 · #00ee22
- Furious FrogΔE00 1.709 · #55ee00
- Dangerously GreenΔE00 1.997 · #16f12d
- Lime ShotΔE00 2.376 · #1df914
- SpringΔE00 2.398 · #00f900
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.