HueComb

Creamy Mint

#aaffaa

A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#aaffaa

RGB

170, 255, 170

OKLCh

92.5% 0.141 144.3°

CIELAB (D50)

93.0, -38.9, 32.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • 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 9.3; on black, Lc -94.9. 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 16.9 and 16.6 and 37.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#338738 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#aaffaa

protanopia

#f7f7aa · ΔE00 16.9

deuteranopia

#eaeaad · ΔE00 16.6

tritanopia

#dbdbff · ΔE00 37.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Pastel Green at ΔE00 1.911: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.