Lime Mist
#ddffaa
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ddffaa
RGB
221, 255, 170
OKLCh
95.6% 0.114 126.2°
CIELAB (D50)
96.1, -21.7, 36.9
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 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 0.0; on black, Lc -100.2. 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 8.3 and 8.2 and 30.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.11:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#63802e 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
#ddffaa
protanopia
#fbfbaa · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#f6f6ab · ΔE00 8.2
tritanopia
#efefff · ΔE00 30.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCreamy Avocado at ΔE00 3.277: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Creamy AvocadoΔE00 3.277 · #d8f19c
- Reef RefractionsΔE00 3.295 · #d1ef9f
- Laced GreenΔE00 3.607 · #ccee99
- Hawthorn BlossomΔE00 3.985 · #eeffaa
- Hitchcock MilkΔE00 4.042 · #eeffa9
- Mint JulepΔE00 4.225 · #def0a3
- Porcelain EarthΔE00 4.319 · #eeffbb
- MentholΔE00 4.708 · #c1f9a2
- Crystal AppleΔE00 4.763 · #cee9a0
- Sour Green CherryΔE00 4.787 · #c8ffb0
- Lemon SherbetΔE00 4.85 · #f1ffa8
- Celery MousseΔE00 4.948 · #c1fd95
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.