HueComb

Sugar Mint

#c0e2c5

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

#c0e2c5

RGB

192, 226, 197

OKLCh

88.0% 0.053 149.3°

CIELAB (D50)

86.8, -15.7, 10.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 only 23% 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 19.7; on black, Lc -83.8. 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 11.7 and 12.2 and 28.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#5f7e64 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

#c0e2c5

protanopia

#dfdfc5 · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#d9d9c6 · ΔE00 12.2

tritanopia

#d2d2ff · ΔE00 28.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMother Nature at ΔE00 0.622: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mother NatureΔE00 0.622 · #bde1c4
  • Pallid GreenΔE00 1.175 · #c1e0c1
  • Soft GrassΔE00 1.238 · #c1dfc4
  • Wintergreen MintΔE00 1.272 · #c6e5ca
  • Granny AppleΔE00 1.521 · #c5e7cd
  • Lattice WorkΔE00 1.61 · #b9e1c2
  • Luna GreenΔE00 1.652 · #c1e0c8
  • SpearmintsΔE00 1.762 · #bce3c9
  • Green MythΔE00 1.764 · #c5e1c3
  • Cuddle BugΔE00 1.905 · #c1e0be
  • Sprite TwistΔE00 1.912 · #b9dcc3
  • ChayoteΔE00 1.974 · #c7e2c6

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