Hello Spring
#44dd66
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#44dd66
RGB
68, 221, 102
OKLCh
79.2% 0.206 147.2°
CIELAB (D50)
78.4, -59.8, 45.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% 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 32.4; on black, Lc -70.3. 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 22.4 and 21.7 and 51.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#008a31 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
#44dd66
protanopia
#d3d365 · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#c0c06b · ΔE00 21.7
tritanopia
#a9a9ff · ΔE00 51.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLimonana 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.
- LimonanaΔE00 1.816 · #11dd66
- Green PriestessΔE00 2.149 · #11dd55
- MalachiteΔE00 2.503 · #0bda51
- BrazilianiteΔE00 2.525 · #31d652
- Lightish GreenΔE00 2.918 · #61e160
- Toxic SlimeΔE00 3.019 · #43e85f
- Koopa Green ShellΔE00 3.14 · #58d854
- Tealish GreenΔE00 3.3 · #0cdc73
- Dasyphyllous GreenΔE00 3.656 · #0bdb43
- Weird GreenΔE00 3.717 · #3ae57f
- Benzol GreenΔE00 3.82 · #00d973
- Acid PopsΔE00 3.951 · #33ee66
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.