Macau
#46c299
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#46c299
RGB
70, 194, 153
OKLCh
73.4% 0.125 167.4°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, -43.2, 10.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.5; on black, Lc -58.7. 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 21.8 and 22.3 and 41.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008765 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
#46c299
protanopia
#b9b999 · ΔE00 21.8
deuteranopia
#aaaa9b · ΔE00 22.3
tritanopia
#9696ff · ΔE00 41.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNew Meadow at ΔE00 1.107: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- New MeadowΔE00 1.107 · #48c09b
- JadeiteΔE00 2.091 · #38c6a1
- Expressionism GreenΔE00 2.339 · #52bc9a
- Mountain MeadowΔE00 2.615 · #30ba8f
- Mermaid’s KissΔE00 2.651 · #59c8a5
- DirosetΔE00 2.679 · #5acaa4
- Mint JellyΔE00 3.047 · #45cea2
- BlarneyΔE00 3.118 · #00c08e
- Dark ShamrockΔE00 3.233 · #33cc99
- Cōng Lǜ GreenΔE00 3.244 · #01c08d
- Blue Green SceneΔE00 3.441 · #56b78f
- Aztec JadeΔE00 3.444 · #33bb88
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.