Endive
#cee1c8
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
#cee1c8
RGB
206, 225, 200
OKLCh
88.9% 0.039 138.2°
CIELAB (D50)
87.6, -10.0, 10.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 15% 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 18.5; 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 7.6 and 7.9 and 25.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.38:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6b7c65 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
#cee1c8
protanopia
#dfdfc8 · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#dcdcc8 · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#d8d8fd · ΔE00 25.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Moss at ΔE00 0.714: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Soft MossΔE00 0.714 · #cce1c7
- Lime FlipΔE00 1.083 · #d2e3cc
- Jocular GreenΔE00 1.102 · #cce2ca
- Spring BurstΔE00 1.473 · #c9e0c8
- Shanghai SilkΔE00 1.675 · #c8dfc3
- PeppermintΔE00 1.941 · #d7e7d0
- Supreme GreenΔE00 2.037 · #cfddc7
- Butter LettuceΔE00 2.037 · #cfe7cb
- MystifiedΔE00 2.082 · #c9dbc7
- Misty AfternoonΔE00 2.163 · #c6dcc7
- Mint IntermezzoΔE00 2.198 · #c5dcc6
- Light Lime SherbetΔE00 2.261 · #d8e6ce
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.