Snowy Mint
#d6f0cd
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
#d6f0cd
RGB
214, 240, 205
OKLCh
92.7% 0.054 137.6°
CIELAB (D50)
92.2, -13.5, 14.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 10.9; on black, Lc -93.2. 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 9.1 and 9.4 and 25.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#667d5e 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
#d6f0cd
protanopia
#ededcd · ΔE00 9.1
deuteranopia
#e9e9ce · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#e4e4ff · ΔE00 25.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Lime at ΔE00 0.974: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh LimeΔE00 0.974 · #d8f1cb
- Mint FrappéΔE00 1.171 · #d0ebc8
- Kiwi SqueezeΔE00 1.334 · #d1edcd
- Blue RomanceΔE00 1.487 · #d8f0d2
- Seafoam SprayΔE00 1.502 · #daefce
- Green SongΔE00 1.725 · #d1e9c4
- Lantana LimeΔE00 1.807 · #d7eccd
- Sweet SpringΔE00 2.142 · #d1e8c2
- Pastel MintΔE00 2.165 · #cef0cc
- Light CarolinaΔE00 2.282 · #d8f3d7
- Frosty DawnΔE00 2.291 · #cbe9c9
- Aquarelle MintΔE00 2.296 · #dbf4d8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.