Experimintal Green
#4cff7b
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
#4cff7b
RGB
76, 255, 123
OKLCh
88.3% 0.227 148.0°
CIELAB (D50)
89.2, -66.9, 48.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 15.3; on black, Lc -88.4. 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 23.7 and 23.0 and 47.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008a35 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
#4cff7b
protanopia
#f3f37a · ΔE00 23.7
deuteranopia
#dede81 · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#c2c2ff · ΔE00 47.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBooger Buster at ΔE00 1.718: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Booger BusterΔE00 1.718 · #00ff77
- Spring GreenΔE00 1.942 · #00ff7c
- Guppie GreenΔE00 2.163 · #00ff7f
- Synthetic SpearmintΔE00 2.166 · #1ef876
- FloraΔE00 2.798 · #73fa79
- Light GreenΔE00 2.829 · #76ff7b
- Minty GreenΔE00 2.977 · #0bf77d
- Astro Arcade GreenΔE00 3.18 · #77ff77
- WintergreenΔE00 3.305 · #20f986
- Screamin’ GreenΔE00 3.537 · #66ff66
- Green KatamariΔE00 3.719 · #53fe5c
- Cathode GreenΔE00 3.78 · #00ff55
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.