Mint to Be
#98ff97
A green that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#98ff97
RGB
152, 255, 151
OKLCh
91.3% 0.169 143.8°
CIELAB (D50)
91.9, -46.5, 39.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 11.1; on black, Lc -92.9. 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 18.6 and 18.2 and 41.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#188923 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#98ff97
protanopia
#f6f696 · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#e7e79a · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#d4d4ff · ΔE00 41.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBright Mint at ΔE00 0.162: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bright MintΔE00 0.162 · #98ff98
- Cobalt GreenΔE00 0.508 · #94ff94
- Toxic FrogΔE00 0.988 · #98fb98
- Barium GreenΔE00 2.01 · #8fff9f
- Baby GreenΔE00 2.14 · #8cff9e
- Lens Flare GreenΔE00 2.941 · #b0ff9d
- Creamy MintΔE00 3.145 · #aaffaa
- Easter GreenΔE00 3.201 · #8cfd7e
- Pale Light GreenΔE00 3.445 · #b1fc99
- Ulva Lactuca GreenΔE00 3.628 · #90ee90
- Foam GreenΔE00 3.823 · #90fda9
- Radar Blip GreenΔE00 3.825 · #96f97b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.