Green Glint
#dcf1c7
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
#dcf1c7
RGB
220, 241, 199
OKLCh
93.2% 0.060 129.2°
CIELAB (D50)
92.8, -12.6, 17.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 10.0; on black, Lc -94.2. 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 7.1 and 7.3 and 26.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.20:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6a7d57 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
#dcf1c7
protanopia
#efefc7 · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#ebebc8 · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#e7e7ff · ΔE00 26.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreenette at ΔE00 1.385: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GreenetteΔE00 1.385 · #daecc5
- Green VeilΔE00 1.575 · #e0f1c4
- Envious PastelΔE00 1.755 · #ddf3c2
- Fresh LimeΔE00 1.769 · #d8f1cb
- Tzatziki GreenΔE00 2.326 · #ddeecc
- Sweet SpringΔE00 2.392 · #d1e8c2
- Mellow MintΔE00 2.492 · #ddedbd
- Seafoam SprayΔE00 2.519 · #daefce
- Green SongΔE00 2.524 · #d1e9c4
- Green VibesΔE00 2.546 · #d4e7c3
- Snowy MintΔE00 2.688 · #d6f0cd
- New HopeΔE00 2.727 · #e2efc2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.