Celery Mousse

#c1fd95

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

Hex

#c1fd95

RGB

193, 253, 149

OKLCh

93.0% 0.146 133.0°

CIELAB (D50)

93.5, -32.7, 43.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 90% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 8.7; on black, Lc -95.5. 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 12.8 and 12.5 and 38.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.75:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.75:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#4f8417 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

#c1fd95

protanopia

#f7f795 · ΔE00 12.8

deuteranopia

#eded97 · ΔE00 12.5

tritanopia

#e2e2ff · ΔE00 38.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPistachio Mousse at ΔE00 1.442: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Pistachio MousseΔE00 1.442 · #c0fa8b
  • Apatite Crystal GreenΔE00 1.505 · #bbff99
  • Light Yellowish GreenΔE00 2.065 · #c2ff89
  • MentholΔE00 2.702 · #c1f9a2
  • Pale Light GreenΔE00 2.946 · #b1fc99
  • Green IncandescenceΔE00 3.137 · #c4fe82
  • Green DayΔE00 3.234 · #bbee88
  • Reindeer MossΔE00 3.28 · #bdf8a3
  • Lens Flare GreenΔE00 3.56 · #b0ff9d
  • Sweet Mint PestoΔE00 3.925 · #bbee99
  • Sour Green CherryΔE00 4.209 · #c8ffb0
  • Snappy GreenΔE00 4.367 · #bcf5a6

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