Neon Green
#39ff14
A green that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#39ff14
RGB
57, 255, 20
OKLCh
87.1% 0.286 141.5°
CIELAB (D50)
88.3, -75.3, 79.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 37 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 16.7; on black, Lc -87.0. 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 23.3 and 22.6 and 54.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#168a00 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
#39ff14
protanopia
#f3f30a · ΔE00 23.3
deuteranopia
#dcdc2f · ΔE00 22.6
tritanopia
#c0c0ff · ΔE00 54.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMcNuke at ΔE00 0.175: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- McNukeΔE00 0.175 · #33ff11
- Signal GreenΔE00 0.317 · #33ff00
- Poison GreenΔE00 0.461 · #40fd14
- HarlequinΔE00 0.524 · #3fff00
- Green ScreenΔE00 0.552 · #22ff00
- Tropical ElementsΔE00 0.593 · #33ff22
- Acid RefluxΔE00 0.627 · #30ff21
- Phosphorescent GreenΔE00 0.788 · #11ff00
- Fluro GreenΔE00 0.855 · #0aff02
- New Wave GreenΔE00 0.877 · #11ff11
- Alien AbductionΔE00 0.885 · #0cff0c
- Fluorescent GreenΔE00 0.895 · #08ff08
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.