Celadon
#ace1af
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ace1af
RGB
172, 225, 175
OKLCh
86.0% 0.088 146.2°
CIELAB (D50)
84.9, -24.9, 18.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.8; on black, Lc -80.5. 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 13.6 and 14.0 and 35.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.48:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#518255 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
#ace1af
protanopia
#dcdcaf · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#d3d3b0 · ΔE00 14.0
tritanopia
#c9c9ff · ΔE00 35.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVers de Terre at ΔE00 0.547: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vers de TerreΔE00 0.547 · #acdfad
- Frozen Moss GreenΔE00 0.68 · #addfad
- Big SpenderΔE00 1.251 · #acddaf
- Celtic SpringΔE00 1.586 · #aadeb2
- OvertoneΔE00 2.078 · #a4e3b3
- Mint Cocktail GreenΔE00 2.36 · #b8e2b0
- FizzΔE00 2.36 · #b1dbaa
- Green TranceΔE00 2.374 · #a0d9a3
- AppetiteΔE00 2.381 · #b1e5aa
- Weekend GardenerΔE00 2.744 · #9fe4aa
- Mint ParfaitΔE00 2.814 · #bbe6bb
- Green GooseberryΔE00 2.859 · #b0dfa4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.