HueComb

Pastel Green

#77dd77

A green that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#77dd77

RGB

119, 221, 119

OKLCh

81.2% 0.169 143.8°

CIELAB (D50)

80.2, -46.4, 40.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.0; on black, Lc -72.8. 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 18.7 and 18.3 and 48.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#198923 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#77dd77

protanopia

#d5d576 · ΔE00 18.7

deuteranopia

#c6c67b · ΔE00 18.3

tritanopia

#b4b4ff · ΔE00 48.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFeralas Lime at ΔE00 2.6: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.