#A6E551#A6E551

#A6E551 is a very light, vivid yellow-green. Relative luminance 0.647; OKLCH L 85.1% C 0.188 H 129.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.95:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A6E551
RGB	rgb(166, 229, 81)
HSL	hsl(86, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(86, 65%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(27.5%, 0%, 64.6%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.35, -42.18, 63.46)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.35, 76.20, 123.61°)
OKLab	oklab(85.07% -0.1193 0.1451)
OKLCH	oklch(85.07% 0.188 129.4)
XYZ	xyz(45.2302, 64.7385, 17.8958)
Luminance	0.6474 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow-green

Closest named colors

Spring Green (survey)

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A6E551 #9051E5

analogous

#E5DA51 #A6E551 #5CE551

triadic

#A6E551 #51A6E5 #E551A6

tetradic

#A6E551 #51E5DA #9051E5 #E5515C

square

#A6E551 #51E5DA #9051E5 #E5515C

split-complementary

#A6E551 #515CE5 #DA51E5

monochromatic

#68A318 #8AD820 #A6E551 #C1ED86 #DCF5BB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.51

#A6E551 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.95

#A6E551 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A6E551

13.95:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A6E551	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A6E551	1.00	1.51	13.95	13.95
#FFFFFF	1.51	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.95	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.95	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EFD53D

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D15D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#AADBC7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a6e551;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(166, 229, 81);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.1% 0.188 129.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c4ed88',
    500: '#a6e551',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a6e551;
$custom-light: #c4ed88;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a6e551",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 166,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 81
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 85.541,
    "s": 74,
    "l": 60.784
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85074,
    "c": 0.18786,
    "h": 129.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.6474
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A6E551

secondary

#6535A6

accent

#0FD664

background

#FDFFFC

surface

#F9FEF4

border

#D2D6CE

text

#13160C

muted

#82857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #A6E551

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

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