Hint of Mint

#dff1d6

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

#dff1d6

RGB

223, 241, 214

OKLCh

93.8% 0.041 135.0°

CIELAB (D50)

93.3, -9.7, 11.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 30% 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 9.1; on black, Lc -95.1. 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 7.1 and 7.3 and 21.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.69:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.69:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#6c7b63 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#dff1d6

protanopia

#efefd6 · ΔE00 7.1

deuteranopia

#ececd6 · ΔE00 7.3

tritanopia

#e8e8ff · ΔE00 21.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Fresh Lime at ΔE00 0.86: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Light Fresh LimeΔE00 0.86 · #e2f4d7
  • Mint ShakeΔE00 1.001 · #daeed3
  • Graceful MintΔE00 1.214 · #daeed5
  • Light TactileΔE00 1.339 · #deedd4
  • Spring WheatΔE00 1.468 · #e0eed4
  • Frosted GardenΔE00 1.635 · #e2f7d9
  • Light GreenetteΔE00 1.775 · #e2f0d2
  • Light Green GlintΔE00 1.849 · #e5f4d5
  • FrostiniΔE00 1.851 · #dbf2d9
  • Lantana LimeΔE00 1.957 · #d7eccd
  • Seafoam SprayΔE00 2.05 · #daefce
  • MischievousΔE00 2.06 · #dff2dd

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.