HueComb

Sweet Mint Pesto

#bbee99

A green that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#bbee99

RGB

187, 238, 153

OKLCh

89.4% 0.123 133.5°

CIELAB (D50)

89.1, -28.0, 35.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.2; on black, Lc -87.5. 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 11.7 and 11.6 and 39.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#558331 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bbee99

protanopia

#e9e999 · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#e1e19b · ΔE00 11.6

tritanopia

#d7d7ff · ΔE00 39.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMenthol at ΔE00 2.318: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.