Lima
#a9f971
A green that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#a9f971
RGB
169, 249, 113
OKLCh
90.2% 0.187 134.1°
CIELAB (D50)
90.7, -42.2, 56.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.4; on black, Lc -90.4. 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 15.2 and 14.9 and 45.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#488600 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
#a9f971
protanopia
#f2f270 · ΔE00 15.2
deuteranopia
#e5e575 · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#d6d6ff · ΔE00 45.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStinging Wasabi at ΔE00 1.425: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Stinging WasabiΔE00 1.425 · #aefd6c
- Key LimeΔE00 1.558 · #aeff6e
- Stadium LawnΔE00 1.818 · #9af764
- Pale Lime GreenΔE00 2.568 · #b1ff65
- Lime LightningΔE00 3.05 · #befd73
- Luminescent LimeΔE00 3.351 · #b9ff66
- Radar Blip GreenΔE00 3.364 · #96f97b
- Light Yellowish GreenΔE00 3.467 · #c2ff89
- Irradiated GreenΔE00 3.549 · #aaff55
- Green IncandescenceΔE00 3.562 · #c4fe82
- Pistachio MousseΔE00 3.733 · #c0fa8b
- Kiwi PulpΔE00 4.385 · #9cef43
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.