Poisonous Dart
#77ff66
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
#77ff66
RGB
119, 255, 102
OKLCh
89.2% 0.227 141.5°
CIELAB (D50)
90.1, -60.0, 59.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 14.0; on black, Lc -89.8. 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 20.8 and 20.2 and 48.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#178a00 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
#77ff66
protanopia
#f4f465 · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#e2e26c · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#cbcbff · ΔE00 48.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLighter Green at ΔE00 0.447: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lighter GreenΔE00 0.447 · #75fd63
- Screamin’ GreenΔE00 1.337 · #66ff66
- BiopunkΔE00 1.611 · #66ff55
- Astro Arcade GreenΔE00 2.032 · #77ff77
- Puyo Blob GreenΔE00 2.204 · #55ff55
- Green KatamariΔE00 2.25 · #53fe5c
- Goblin WarbossΔE00 2.534 · #4efd54
- Light GreenΔE00 2.59 · #76ff7b
- Easter GreenΔE00 2.86 · #8cfd7e
- The MatrixΔE00 2.919 · #70f15e
- FloraΔE00 2.981 · #73fa79
- Radar Blip GreenΔE00 3.565 · #96f97b
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.