Lethal Lime
#88ff11
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
#88ff11
RGB
136, 255, 17
OKLCh
89.4% 0.259 135.1°
CIELAB (D50)
90.4, -58.8, 83.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 13.6; on black, Lc -90.2. 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 18.5 and 18.0 and 51.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#448600 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
#88ff11
protanopia
#f5f509 · ΔE00 18.5
deuteranopia
#e4e429 · ΔE00 18.0
tritanopia
#d0d0ff · ΔE00 51.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLasting Lime at ΔE00 0.295: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lasting LimeΔE00 0.295 · #88ff00
- RadioactiveΔE00 0.352 · #89fe05
- Bright LimeΔE00 0.435 · #87fd05
- Loud LimeΔE00 0.534 · #88ff22
- RadiumΔE00 0.753 · #7fff00
- Acid GreenΔE00 0.862 · #8ffe09
- Skywalker GreenΔE00 0.872 · #8ffe08
- Spring FrostΔE00 0.949 · #87ff2a
- Nuclear WasteΔE00 1.15 · #7cfc00
- MochitoΔE00 1.368 · #8efa00
- Neon LimeΔE00 1.562 · #95ff00
- Mango GreenΔE00 1.674 · #96ff00
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.