Illicit Green
#56fca2
A green that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#56fca2
RGB
86, 252, 162
OKLCh
88.4% 0.186 155.4°
CIELAB (D50)
88.9, -59.6, 30.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.6; on black, Lc -88.1. 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 23.1 and 43.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.33:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#00894e 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
#56fca2
protanopia
#f0f0a1 · ΔE00 23.7
deuteranopia
#dcdca6 · ΔE00 23.1
tritanopia
#c2c2ff · ΔE00 43.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSea Green at ΔE00 0.192: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sea GreenΔE00 0.192 · #53fca1
- Hanuman GreenΔE00 1.244 · #55ffaa
- Thallium FlameΔE00 1.55 · #58f898
- Eva GreenΔE00 1.844 · #36ff9a
- Lunatic Sky DancerΔE00 2.152 · #76fda8
- Atomic SpringΔE00 2.35 · #00fa9a
- Green GasΔE00 2.469 · #00ff99
- Yíng Guāng Sè GreenΔE00 2.612 · #05ffa6
- Venice GreenΔE00 2.623 · #6bffb3
- Ahaetulla PrasinaΔE00 2.743 · #00fa92
- Lime SoapΔE00 2.814 · #7af9ab
- Hyperpop GreenΔE00 2.968 · #17f9a6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.