Mellow Mint
#ddedbd
A yellow 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
#ddedbd
RGB
221, 237, 189
OKLCh
92.2% 0.065 122.7°
CIELAB (D50)
91.6, -11.5, 21.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 11.9; on black, Lc -92.1. 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 5.2 and 5.3 and 23.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6e7c50 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
#ddedbd
protanopia
#ebebbd · ΔE00 5.2
deuteranopia
#e8e8bd · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#e5e5f1 · ΔE00 23.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFennel Bulb at ΔE00 0.725: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fennel BulbΔE00 0.725 · #ddeebb
- New HopeΔE00 1.227 · #e2efc2
- Green VeilΔE00 1.237 · #e0f1c4
- Budding BloomΔE00 1.362 · #deeabd
- Spirit WhisperΔE00 1.576 · #e3eebf
- Spring ShootΔE00 1.699 · #e2edc1
- FreshmanΔE00 1.78 · #e6f2c4
- Natural YouthΔE00 1.827 · #d7e5b4
- Envious PastelΔE00 1.942 · #ddf3c2
- Lasting ThoughtsΔE00 2.107 · #d4e6b1
- Green ReflectionΔE00 2.274 · #d1e5b5
- Kiwi SorbetΔE00 2.292 · #dee8be
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.