Limonana
#11dd66
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#11dd66
RGB
17, 221, 102
OKLCh
78.5% 0.216 149.5°
CIELAB (D50)
77.7, -65.3, 44.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 33.2; on black, Lc -69.5. 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 23.9 and 23.1 and 51.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#00893c 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
#11dd66
protanopia
#d2d265 · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#bebe6c · ΔE00 23.1
tritanopia
#a4a4ff · ΔE00 51.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHello Spring at ΔE00 1.816: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hello SpringΔE00 1.816 · #44dd66
- Tealish GreenΔE00 2.046 · #0cdc73
- Green PriestessΔE00 2.188 · #11dd55
- MalachiteΔE00 2.514 · #0bda51
- Benzol GreenΔE00 2.588 · #00d973
- BrazilianiteΔE00 3.022 · #31d652
- Weird GreenΔE00 3.303 · #3ae57f
- Shivering GreenΔE00 3.52 · #24dd7e
- Toxic SlimeΔE00 3.906 · #43e85f
- UFO GreenΔE00 3.937 · #3cd070
- Dasyphyllous GreenΔE00 4.007 · #0bdb43
- BattletoadΔE00 4.196 · #11cc55
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.