Pastel Mint
#cef0cc
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
#cef0cc
RGB
206, 240, 204
OKLCh
92.1% 0.060 143.6°
CIELAB (D50)
91.6, -16.4, 13.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.8; on black, Lc -92.2. 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 11.1 and 11.5 and 27.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#607e5e 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
#cef0cc
protanopia
#ececcc · ΔE00 11.1
deuteranopia
#e7e7cd · ΔE00 11.5
tritanopia
#e0e0ff · ΔE00 27.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCarolina at ΔE00 0.594: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CarolinaΔE00 0.594 · #cbefcb
- Spring SavourΔE00 0.696 · #cceecc
- Kiwi SqueezeΔE00 1.786 · #d1edcd
- Frosty DawnΔE00 1.868 · #cbe9c9
- Mint FrappéΔE00 1.988 · #d0ebc8
- Mint GlossΔE00 2.091 · #c8f3cd
- PickfordΔE00 2.155 · #c9f0d1
- Snowy MintΔE00 2.165 · #d6f0cd
- Celery StickΔE00 2.21 · #caedd0
- Celery VictorΔE00 2.262 · #cceec2
- ApplemintΔE00 2.385 · #cdeacd
- Fresh LimeΔE00 2.702 · #d8f1cb
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.