HueComb

Smell the Mint

#bef7cf

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

#bef7cf

RGB

190, 247, 207

OKLCh

92.7% 0.079 154.0°

CIELAB (D50)

92.5, -24.5, 13.2

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 uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.1; on black, Lc -94.0. 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 15.2 and 15.9 and 29.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4d825f 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

#bef7cf

protanopia

#f1f1cf · ΔE00 15.2

deuteranopia

#e8e8d0 · ΔE00 15.9

tritanopia

#ddddff · ΔE00 29.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSlime Lime at ΔE00 2.589: 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.