Ultra Mint
#a3efb8
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#a3efb8
RGB
163, 239, 184
OKLCh
88.8% 0.107 152.5°
CIELAB (D50)
88.4, -32.7, 18.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.9; on black, Lc -86.7. 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 16.7 and 16.9 and 35.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.60:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.60:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#3b8554 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
#a3efb8
protanopia
#e8e8b8 · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#dcdcba · ΔE00 16.9
tritanopia
#ceceff · ΔE00 35.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVaporwave Pool at ΔE00 1.972: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Vaporwave PoolΔE00 1.972 · #99eebb
- Teal DeerΔE00 2.246 · #99e6b3
- Hospital GreenΔE00 2.538 · #9be5aa
- Weekend GardenerΔE00 2.776 · #9fe4aa
- Mint TonicΔE00 2.788 · #99eeaa
- OvertoneΔE00 3.014 · #a4e3b3
- Nightly AuroraΔE00 3.066 · #9beec1
- Tenacious TentaclesΔE00 3.321 · #98f6b0
- Light Sea-FoamΔE00 3.514 · #a0febf
- Frosted HillsΔE00 3.635 · #aaeeaa
- Neo MintΔE00 3.774 · #aaffcc
- Dead 99ΔE00 3.824 · #99dead
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.