HueComb

Mint-o-licious

#b6e9c8

A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#b6e9c8

RGB

182, 233, 200

OKLCh

89.0% 0.069 156.3°

CIELAB (D50)

88.1, -21.8, 10.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 36% 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 17.5; on black, Lc -86.1. 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 15.0 and 15.7 and 29.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#518164 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

#b6e9c8

protanopia

#e4e4c8 · ΔE00 15.0

deuteranopia

#dcdcc9 · ΔE00 15.7

tritanopia

#d2d2ff · ΔE00 29.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCanton Jade at ΔE00 1.257: 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.