Jovial Jade
#88ddaa
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#88ddaa
RGB
136, 221, 170
OKLCh
83.0% 0.110 156.7°
CIELAB (D50)
81.7, -35.2, 16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.6; on black, Lc -75.3. 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 18.1 and 18.4 and 38.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.62:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.97:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.97:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#2e8658 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
#88ddaa
protanopia
#d6d6aa · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#c9c9ac · ΔE00 18.4
tritanopia
#b9b9ff · ΔE00 38.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPatrice at ΔE00 2.135: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- PatriceΔE00 2.135 · #8cd9a1
- Dead 99ΔE00 2.408 · #99dead
- Peaceful PasturesΔE00 2.552 · #94d8ac
- Teal DeerΔE00 2.654 · #99e6b3
- Fresco GreenΔE00 2.719 · #7bd9ad
- Mother of Pearl GreenΔE00 2.843 · #8fd89f
- Enchanted EmeraldΔE00 2.911 · #7ed89a
- Tadorna TealΔE00 3.261 · #7ad7ad
- Green AshΔE00 3.436 · #95d6a1
- Sprig of MintΔE00 3.599 · #8be0ba
- Hospital GreenΔE00 3.611 · #9be5aa
- Pharaoh’s JadeΔE00 3.642 · #83d1a9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.