Secret Garden
#11aa66
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#11aa66
RGB
17, 170, 102
OKLCh
65.0% 0.154 156.1°
CIELAB (D50)
61.4, -50.0, 24.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% 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 56.3; on black, Lc -45.5. 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 22.0 and 21.4 and 49.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.01:1 — large text only
Black text
6.97:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.97:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008950 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
#11aa66
protanopia
#a1a165 · ΔE00 22.0
deuteranopia
#929269 · ΔE00 21.4
tritanopia
#7d7dff · ΔE00 49.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreedo Green at ΔE00 0.328: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Greedo GreenΔE00 0.328 · #00aa66
- Go Green!ΔE00 0.401 · #00ab66
- JadeΔE00 1.672 · #00a86b
- Jade PowderΔE00 1.856 · #2baf6a
- Island GreenΔE00 1.864 · #2bae66
- Banaue JadeΔE00 1.88 · #00a86c
- Seaweed GreenΔE00 1.895 · #35ad6b
- Alhambra GreenΔE00 2.052 · #00a465
- JungleΔE00 2.15 · #00a466
- Green HazeΔE00 2.736 · #01a368
- Sesame Street GreenΔE00 2.761 · #00a870
- Emerald Light GreenΔE00 2.961 · #00a267
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.