#A6E356#A6E356

#A6E356 is a very light, vivid yellow-green. Relative luminance 0.637; OKLCH L 84.7% C 0.182 H 129.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.74:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A6E356
RGB	rgb(166, 227, 86)
HSL	hsl(86, 72%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(86, 62%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(26.9%, 0%, 62.1%, 11%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.82, -40.91, 60.86)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.82, 73.33, 123.91°)
OKLab	oklab(84.66% -0.1154 0.1402)
OKLCH	oklch(84.66% 0.182 129.5)
XYZ	xyz(44.8744, 63.7159, 18.7364)
Luminance	0.6372 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow-green

Closest named colors

Spring Green (survey)

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A6E356 #9356E3

analogous

#E3D956 #A6E356 #60E356

triadic

#A6E356 #56A6E3 #E356A6

tetradic

#A6E356 #56E3D9 #9356E3 #E35660

square

#A6E356 #56E3D9 #9356E3 #E35660

split-complementary

#A6E356 #5660E3 #D956E3

monochromatic

#68A41B #8AD824 #A6E356 #C2EC8B #DDF4BF

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.53

#A6E356 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.74

#A6E356 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A6E356

13.74:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A6E356	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A6E356	1.00	1.53	13.74	13.74
#FFFFFF	1.53	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.74	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.74	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EDD445

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5D061

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#AADAC5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D1D1D1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a6e356;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(166, 227, 86);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.7% 0.182 129.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c4ec8b',
    500: '#a6e356',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a6e356;
$custom-light: #c4ec8b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a6e356",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 166,
    "g": 227,
    "b": 86
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 85.957,
    "s": 71.574,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84656,
    "c": 0.1816,
    "h": 129.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.63717
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A6E356

secondary

#6737A6

accent

#12D466

background

#FDFEFC

surface

#F9FDF4

border

#D2D5CE

text

#13160C

muted

#82847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #A6E356

Body copy rendered with the generated semantic roles for this colour.

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