Opulent Lime
#88dd11
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
#88dd11
RGB
136, 221, 17
OKLCh
81.2% 0.222 132.1°
CIELAB (D50)
80.4, -46.7, 75.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 29.8; on black, Lc -73.0. 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 15.4 and 15.0 and 56.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.69:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#4f8500 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
#88dd11
protanopia
#d6d60c · ΔE00 15.4
deuteranopia
#c9c922 · ΔE00 15.0
tritanopia
#b9b9ff · ΔE00 56.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOvergrown at ΔE00 0.39: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- OvergrownΔE00 0.39 · #88dd00
- Electric LeafΔE00 0.452 · #89dd01
- Alien ArmpitΔE00 0.543 · #84de02
- FroggerΔE00 1.841 · #8cd612
- Green SerumΔE00 2.195 · #99dd22
- Poisonous PotionΔE00 2.206 · #99dd33
- Effervescent LimeΔE00 2.298 · #98da2c
- King LizardΔE00 2.535 · #77dd22
- Poisonous MintsΔE00 2.666 · #8fd400
- Green MinionsΔE00 2.669 · #99dd00
- Kiwi GreenΔE00 2.905 · #8ee53f
- Quithayran GreenΔE00 2.936 · #9be510
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.