Glaucous Green
#b3e8c2
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
#b3e8c2
RGB
179, 232, 194
OKLCh
88.4% 0.075 153.5°
CIELAB (D50)
87.6, -23.2, 12.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 18.4; on black, Lc -85.1. 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 14.8 and 15.5 and 31.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#508160 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
#b3e8c2
protanopia
#e3e3c2 · ΔE00 14.8
deuteranopia
#dadac3 · ΔE00 15.5
tritanopia
#d0d0ff · ΔE00 31.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSlime Lime at ΔE00 0.86: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Slime LimeΔE00 0.86 · #b8ebc5
- Mint-o-liciousΔE00 1.433 · #b6e9c8
- Canton JadeΔE00 2.042 · #bae7c7
- Fringy FlowerΔE00 2.092 · #b4e1bb
- Peasful MintΔE00 2.605 · #c1efc6
- Esoteric Touch GreenΔE00 2.729 · #abedc9
- Mint ParfaitΔE00 2.855 · #bbe6bb
- Celtic SpringΔE00 2.951 · #aadeb2
- Summer SighΔE00 2.981 · #b7e0b9
- Coastal FoamΔE00 3.002 · #b0e5c9
- Seafoam SplashesΔE00 3.004 · #b0efce
- Lattice WorkΔE00 3.103 · #b9e1c2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.