Fizz
#b1dbaa
A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#b1dbaa
RGB
177, 219, 170
OKLCh
84.9% 0.080 141.1°
CIELAB (D50)
83.4, -21.1, 19.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 25.1; on black, Lc -78.0. 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 11.7 and 12.0 and 36.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.55:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#5a8054 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
#b1dbaa
protanopia
#d7d7aa · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#d0d0ab · ΔE00 12.0
tritanopia
#c8c8ff · ΔE00 36.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMint Cocktail Green at ΔE00 1.642: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mint Cocktail GreenΔE00 1.642 · #b8e2b0
- Frozen Moss GreenΔE00 1.693 · #addfad
- Vers de TerreΔE00 1.866 · #acdfad
- Big SpenderΔE00 1.901 · #acddaf
- Embroidered SilkΔE00 1.977 · #b8dca7
- Pistachio GreenΔE00 2.258 · #a9d39e
- Graceful FlowerΔE00 2.271 · #bddfb2
- Green GooseberryΔE00 2.316 · #b0dfa4
- CeladonΔE00 2.36 · #ace1af
- Relaxation GreenΔE00 2.51 · #a8d19e
- A Mann’s MintΔE00 2.523 · #bcddb3
- Apple CreamΔE00 2.595 · #b8d7a6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.