Overgrowth
#88cc33
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#88cc33
RGB
136, 204, 51
OKLCh
77.2% 0.191 131.0°
CIELAB (D50)
75.4, -39.3, 63.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% 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 37.4; on black, Lc -65.0. 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 13.8 and 13.4 and 57.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.96:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#528400 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
#88cc33
protanopia
#c6c632 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#bbbb39 · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#afafff · ΔE00 57.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThick Green at ΔE00 1.256: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Thick GreenΔE00 1.256 · #88cc22
- Midsummer FieldΔE00 1.695 · #88cc44
- Niblet GreenΔE00 1.998 · #7dc734
- Growing NatureΔE00 2.061 · #88cc11
- Fabulous FrogΔE00 2.512 · #88cc00
- Delicious DillΔE00 2.512 · #77cc00
- Green CapeΔE00 2.587 · #89ce01
- Jewel BeetleΔE00 2.791 · #8cc90b
- Aromatic HerbsΔE00 2.845 · #98c945
- Lone HunterΔE00 2.941 · #94c84c
- Green LanternΔE00 3.022 · #9cd03b
- Lucky LimeΔE00 3.066 · #9acd32
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.