HueComb

Light Mint

#b6ffbb

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

Hex

#b6ffbb

RGB

182, 255, 187

OKLCh

93.5% 0.117 146.3°

CIELAB (D50)

93.9, -33.1, 25.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit 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 7.8; on black, Lc -96.5. 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 15.7 and 15.6 and 33.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.17:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.01:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.01:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#408548 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

#b6ffbb

protanopia

#f8f8bb · ΔE00 15.7

deuteranopia

#ededbd · ΔE00 15.6

tritanopia

#dfdfff · ΔE00 33.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Slumber Green at ΔE00 1.745: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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