Quiet Jade
#b1e2cb
A green that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#b1e2cb
RGB
177, 226, 203
OKLCh
87.2% 0.060 164.7°
CIELAB (D50)
86.0, -19.9, 5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 33% 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 20.9; on black, Lc -82.5. 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 15.5 and 16.3 and 28.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.44:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#52806c 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
#b1e2cb
protanopia
#ddddcb · ΔE00 15.5
deuteranopia
#d5d5cc · ΔE00 16.3
tritanopia
#ccccff · ΔE00 28.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeach Blanket at ΔE00 0.468: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Beach BlanketΔE00 0.468 · #b2e4cd
- Shallow ShoreΔE00 1.027 · #b0dec8
- Crystal RapidsΔE00 1.177 · #b2e4d0
- Fabulous FindΔE00 1.54 · #abe3c9
- Aqua BayΔE00 1.609 · #b5dfc9
- Coastal FoamΔE00 1.669 · #b0e5c9
- Quantum EffectΔE00 1.885 · #b2ddc4
- Turquoise TowerΔE00 2.032 · #a8e3cc
- Coral GreenΔE00 2.033 · #abe2cf
- MeristemΔE00 2.067 · #aae1ce
- Brook GreenΔE00 2.227 · #afddcc
- Woolly MintΔE00 2.236 · #bde7cf
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.