McNuke
#33ff11
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
#33ff11
RGB
51, 255, 17
OKLCh
87.1% 0.288 141.7°
CIELAB (D50)
88.2, -76.1, 80.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 38 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 16.8; on black, Lc -86.9. 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 23.5 and 22.8 and 54.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#138a00 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
#33ff11
protanopia
#f2f206 · ΔE00 23.5
deuteranopia
#dcdc2e · ΔE00 22.8
tritanopia
#bfbfff · ΔE00 54.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNeon Green at ΔE00 0.175: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Neon GreenΔE00 0.175 · #39ff14
- Signal GreenΔE00 0.297 · #33ff00
- Green ScreenΔE00 0.385 · #22ff00
- Tropical ElementsΔE00 0.536 · #33ff22
- Acid RefluxΔE00 0.549 · #30ff21
- Poison GreenΔE00 0.565 · #40fd14
- Phosphorescent GreenΔE00 0.613 · #11ff00
- HarlequinΔE00 0.635 · #3fff00
- Fluro GreenΔE00 0.68 · #0aff02
- New Wave GreenΔE00 0.711 · #11ff11
- Alien AbductionΔE00 0.714 · #0cff0c
- Fluorescent GreenΔE00 0.721 · #08ff08
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.