Exhilarating Green
#81c784
A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#81c784
RGB
129, 199, 132
OKLCh
76.6% 0.118 145.3°
CIELAB (D50)
74.3, -33.1, 26.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.9; on black, Lc -63.4. 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 15.7 and 15.5 and 45.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.01:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#418546 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#81c784
protanopia
#c1c184 · ΔE00 15.7
deuteranopia
#b6b686 · ΔE00 15.5
tritanopia
#a9a9ff · ΔE00 45.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJolt of Green at ΔE00 0.218: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Jolt of GreenΔE00 0.218 · #82c785
- Garden StrollΔE00 0.598 · #7dc683
- De YorkΔE00 0.845 · #85ca87
- Rally GreenΔE00 2.019 · #7ec083
- Serengeti GreenΔE00 2.23 · #77cc88
- Greek GardenΔE00 2.376 · #8cce86
- Jube GreenΔE00 2.618 · #78cf86
- GreengageΔE00 2.819 · #84be84
- Soft GreenΔE00 2.841 · #6fc276
- Leprechaun LaughΔE00 2.913 · #8cc37d
- ApplegateΔE00 3.132 · #8ac479
- Good Luck CharmΔE00 3.213 · #86c994
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.