Big Spender
#acddaf
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#acddaf
RGB
172, 221, 175
OKLCh
85.1% 0.081 146.4°
CIELAB (D50)
83.8, -23.1, 17.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.6; on black, Lc -78.6. 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 13.3 and 13.7 and 35.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#548158 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
#acddaf
protanopia
#d8d8af · ΔE00 13.3
deuteranopia
#d0d0b0 · ΔE00 13.7
tritanopia
#c7c7ff · ΔE00 35.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCeltic Spring at ΔE00 0.94: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Celtic SpringΔE00 0.94 · #aadeb2
- Vers de TerreΔE00 1.004 · #acdfad
- Frozen Moss GreenΔE00 1.031 · #addfad
- CeladonΔE00 1.251 · #ace1af
- FizzΔE00 1.901 · #b1dbaa
- Fringy FlowerΔE00 2.421 · #b4e1bb
- Summer SighΔE00 2.426 · #b7e0b9
- Mint Cocktail GreenΔE00 2.494 · #b8e2b0
- Green TranceΔE00 2.513 · #a0d9a3
- OvertoneΔE00 2.613 · #a4e3b3
- Mint ParfaitΔE00 2.722 · #bbe6bb
- FrugalΔE00 2.844 · #a5d7b2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.