Green Venom
#b8f818
A green that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#b8f818
RGB
184, 248, 24
OKLCh
90.3% 0.227 126.4°
CIELAB (D50)
90.8, -40.2, 83.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.3; on black, Lc -90.5. 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 11.9 and 11.6 and 48.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5e8200 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b8f818
protanopia
#f2f215 · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#e8e826 · ΔE00 11.6
tritanopia
#dcdcff · ΔE00 48.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShishito Pepper Green at ΔE00 0.59: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Shishito Pepper GreenΔE00 0.59 · #bbf90f
- Lurid LettuceΔE00 1.079 · #b4f319
- Grass Stain GreenΔE00 1.1 · #c0fb2d
- Lemon LimeΔE00 1.321 · #bffe28
- Lemon GreenΔE00 1.481 · #adf802
- Atomic LimeΔE00 1.511 · #b9ff03
- Nuclear BlastΔE00 1.529 · #bbff00
- ChartreuseΔE00 1.632 · #c1f80a
- Sweet VenomΔE00 1.642 · #b6ff1a
- LimoncelloΔE00 1.711 · #bfff00
- French LimeΔE00 1.788 · #c0ff00
- Pick Your PoisonΔE00 2.174 · #bff128
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.