HueComb

Neo Mint

#aaffcc

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

Hex

#aaffcc

RGB

170, 255, 204

OKLCh

93.2% 0.108 157.2°

CIELAB (D50)

93.6, -34.6, 15.9

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 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 8.2; on black, Lc -96.0. 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 18.0 and 18.4 and 32.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.17:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.89:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.89:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#308659 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

#aaffcc

protanopia

#f7f7cc · ΔE00 18.0

deuteranopia

#eaeace · ΔE00 18.4

tritanopia

#dbdbff · ΔE00 32.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMintastic at ΔE00 2.173: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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