Alarming Slime
#2ce335
A green that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#2ce335
RGB
44, 227, 53
OKLCh
79.9% 0.251 143.2°
CIELAB (D50)
79.5, -68.5, 65.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 30.6; on black, Lc -72.2. 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 23.0 and 22.3 and 56.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.73:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008a10 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
#2ce335
protanopia
#d8d833 · ΔE00 23.0
deuteranopia
#c4c441 · ΔE00 22.3
tritanopia
#aaaaff · ΔE00 56.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLexaloffle Green at ΔE00 0.85: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lexaloffle GreenΔE00 0.85 · #00e436
- Green JuiceΔE00 1.248 · #3bde39
- Vibrant GreenΔE00 2.219 · #0add08
- Nuclear ThroneΔE00 2.222 · #00de00
- Green WrasseΔE00 2.242 · #13da25
- GreenaliciousΔE00 2.338 · #00dd00
- Caustic GreenΔE00 2.35 · #11dd00
- Green BlobΔE00 2.415 · #22dd00
- Out of Left FieldΔE00 2.457 · #2ced2b
- Moping GreenΔE00 2.474 · #00ee33
- Acid PoolΔE00 2.735 · #00ee22
- Dasyphyllous GreenΔE00 2.828 · #0bdb43
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.