Fairy Tale Green
#88cc55
A green that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#88cc55
RGB
136, 204, 85
OKLCh
77.5% 0.167 133.8°
CIELAB (D50)
75.6, -37.4, 50.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.1; on black, Lc -65.3. 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 14.3 and 13.9 and 53.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.94:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#498600 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
#88cc55
protanopia
#c6c654 · ΔE00 14.3
deuteranopia
#bbbb59 · ΔE00 13.9
tritanopia
#afafff · ΔE00 53.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVivid Spring at ΔE00 1.84: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Vivid SpringΔE00 1.84 · #87c95f
- Bright LettuceΔE00 2.022 · #8dce65
- Midsummer FieldΔE00 2.112 · #88cc44
- Green FlashΔE00 2.39 · #79c753
- ConceptualΔE00 2.749 · #7ac34f
- Jasmine GreenΔE00 2.811 · #79c63d
- Citrus SurgeΔE00 2.851 · #8bc34a
- Thrilling LimeΔE00 2.896 · #8cc34b
- Lone HunterΔE00 3.091 · #94c84c
- Apple OrchardΔE00 3.285 · #93c96a
- Niblet GreenΔE00 3.342 · #7dc734
- Cabbage PatchΔE00 3.345 · #93c460
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.