#A9E264#A9E264

#A9E264 is a very light, vivid yellow-green. Relative luminance 0.637; OKLCH L 84.8% C 0.167 H 129.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.75:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A9E264
RGB	rgb(169, 226, 100)
HSL	hsl(87, 68%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(87, 56%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(25.2%, 0%, 55.8%, 11.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.83, -38.16, 54.87)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.83, 66.83, 124.82°)
OKLab	oklab(84.76% -0.1069 0.1288)
OKLCH	oklch(84.76% 0.167 129.7)
XYZ	xyz(45.8584, 63.7468, 21.9424)
Luminance	0.6375 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow-green

Closest named colors

Spring Green (survey)

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A9E264 #9D64E2

analogous

#E2DC64 #A9E264 #6AE264

triadic

#A9E264 #64A9E2 #E264A9

tetradic

#A9E264 #64E2DC #9D64E2 #E2646A

square

#A9E264 #64E2DC #9D64E2 #E2646A

split-complementary

#A9E264 #646AE2 #DC64E2

monochromatic

#6CAC20 #8CD830 #A9E264 #C6EC98 #E2F5CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.53

#A9E264 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.75

#A9E264 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A9E264

13.75:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A9E264	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A9E264	1.00	1.53	13.75	13.75
#FFFFFF	1.53	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.75	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.75	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#ECD457

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E3D06D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#ADD9C6

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D1D1D1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a9e264;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(169, 226, 100);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.8% 0.167 129.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c5eb94',
    500: '#a9e264',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a9e264;
$custom-light: #c5eb94;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a9e264",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 169,
    "g": 226,
    "b": 100
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 87.143,
    "s": 68.478,
    "l": 63.922
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84755,
    "c": 0.16739,
    "h": 129.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.63748
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A9E264

secondary

#703DAD

accent

#15D06A

background

#FDFEFC

surface

#F9FDF4

border

#D2D5CE

text

#13160D

muted

#82847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #A9E264

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

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