Luxurious Lime
#88ee22
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
#88ee22
RGB
136, 238, 34
OKLCh
85.3% 0.237 134.1°
CIELAB (D50)
85.4, -52.6, 76.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 97% 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 21.8; on black, Lc -81.5. 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 17.2 and 16.7 and 54.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.30:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.30:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#488600 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
#88ee22
protanopia
#e5e51f · ΔE00 17.2
deuteranopia
#d7d730 · ΔE00 16.7
tritanopia
#c4c4ff · ΔE00 54.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoisonous Pistachio at ΔE00 0.609: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Poisonous PistachioΔE00 0.609 · #88ee11
- Slimy GreenΔE00 1.053 · #7ded17
- Scorpy GreenΔE00 1.06 · #8eef15
- Fresh Granny SmithΔE00 1.271 · #7ff217
- Flickery CRT GreenΔE00 1.465 · #90f215
- Fresh LeafΔE00 1.735 · #93ef10
- Kiwi PulpΔE00 2.325 · #9cef43
- Hypnotic GreenΔE00 2.504 · #73e608
- Lush GreeneryΔE00 2.536 · #7ff23e
- Scorpion VenomΔE00 2.556 · #97ea10
- Kiwi GreenΔE00 2.738 · #8ee53f
- MochitoΔE00 2.823 · #8efa00
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.