Mystery Mint
#bbefd3
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
#bbefd3
RGB
187, 239, 211
OKLCh
90.8% 0.066 161.2°
CIELAB (D50)
90.3, -21.4, 7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.9; on black, Lc -90.0. 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 15.6 and 16.4 and 27.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#508168 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
#bbefd3
protanopia
#eaead3 · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#e1e1d4 · ΔE00 16.4
tritanopia
#d7d7ff · ΔE00 27.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpatial Spirit at ΔE00 1.715: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spatial SpiritΔE00 1.715 · #c1edd3
- Faint CloverΔE00 1.768 · #b2eed3
- Mint-o-liciousΔE00 2.113 · #b6e9c8
- Seafoam SplashesΔE00 2.272 · #b0efce
- Coastal FoamΔE00 2.292 · #b0e5c9
- Martian HazeΔE00 2.299 · #adeace
- Lost LaceΔE00 2.422 · #c2ebd1
- Woolly MintΔE00 2.608 · #bde7cf
- Seafair GreenΔE00 2.645 · #b8f8d8
- Canton JadeΔE00 2.685 · #bae7c7
- Beach BlanketΔE00 2.752 · #b2e4cd
- MaypoleΔE00 2.956 · #bee8d3
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.