Minty Paradise
#00ffbb
A green that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#00ffbb
RGB
0, 255, 187
OKLCh
88.6% 0.186 165.2°
CIELAB (D50)
89.3, -64.1, 17.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 14.6; on black, Lc -89.2. 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 25.9 and 25.4 and 41.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008762 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
#00ffbb
protanopia
#f2f2ba · ΔE00 25.9
deuteranopia
#dbdbbf · ΔE00 25.4
tritanopia
#bdbdff · ΔE00 41.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNight Pearl at ΔE00 0.143: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Night PearlΔE00 0.143 · #11ffbb
- Greenish CyanΔE00 1.043 · #2afeb7
- Greenish TurquoiseΔE00 1.779 · #00fbb0
- EnthusiasmΔE00 3.266 · #00ffaa
- Hyperpop GreenΔE00 3.494 · #17f9a6
- Rare WindΔE00 3.676 · #55ffcc
- Bright TealΔE00 3.681 · #01f9c6
- Plunge PoolΔE00 3.721 · #00ffcc
- Ineffable GreenΔE00 3.763 · #63f7b4
- Move MintΔE00 3.799 · #4effcd
- Yíng Guāng Sè GreenΔE00 3.989 · #05ffa6
- Venice GreenΔE00 4.64 · #6bffb3
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.