Glow in the Dark
#befdb7
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#befdb7
RGB
190, 253, 183
OKLCh
93.4% 0.113 142.1°
CIELAB (D50)
93.8, -30.2, 27.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% 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 8.1; on black, Lc -96.1. 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 14.1 and 14.0 and 33.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.17:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4a8444 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
#befdb7
protanopia
#f7f7b7 · ΔE00 14.1
deuteranopia
#ededb9 · ΔE00 14.0
tritanopia
#e1e1ff · ΔE00 33.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Slumber Green at ΔE00 1.684: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spring Slumber GreenΔE00 1.684 · #b8f8b8
- Distilled VenomΔE00 1.834 · #c7fdb5
- Light MintΔE00 1.855 · #b6ffbb
- Frosted Mint HillsΔE00 2.489 · #ccffc2
- Sour Green CherryΔE00 2.776 · #c8ffb0
- Snappy GreenΔE00 2.947 · #bcf5a6
- Breeze of GreenΔE00 2.978 · #cffdbc
- Light Pastel GreenΔE00 3.039 · #b2fba5
- Greedy GreenΔE00 3.118 · #d1ffbd
- Creamy MintΔE00 3.458 · #aaffaa
- Reindeer MossΔE00 3.507 · #bdf8a3
- Frosted HillsΔE00 3.558 · #aaeeaa
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.