#A9E360#A9E360

#A9E360 is a very light, vivid yellow-green. Relative luminance 0.642; OKLCH L 84.9% C 0.172 H 129.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.84:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A9E360
RGB	rgb(169, 227, 96)
HSL	hsl(87, 70%, 63%)
HSV	hsv(87, 58%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(25.6%, 0%, 57.7%, 11%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.08, -38.97, 56.92)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.08, 68.99, 124.40°)
OKLab	oklab(84.94% -0.1094 0.1329)
OKLCH	oklch(84.94% 0.172 129.5)
XYZ	xyz(45.9423, 64.2166, 21.0386)
Luminance	0.6422 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow-green

Closest named colors

Spring Green (survey)

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A9E360 #9A60E3

analogous

#E3DB60 #A9E360 #67E360

triadic

#A9E360 #60A9E3 #E360A9

tetradic

#A9E360 #60E3DB #9A60E3 #E36067

square

#A9E360 #60E3DB #9A60E3 #E36067

split-complementary

#A9E360 #6067E3 #DB60E3

monochromatic

#6CAB1E #8DDA2C #A9E360 #C5EC94 #E1F5C8

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.52

#A9E360 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.84

#A9E360 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A9E360

13.84:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A9E360	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A9E360	1.00	1.52	13.84	13.84
#FFFFFF	1.52	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.84	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.84	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EDD452

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5D069

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#ADDAC7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a9e360;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(169, 227, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.9% 0.172 129.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c6ec91',
    500: '#a9e360',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a9e360;
$custom-light: #c6ec91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a9e360",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 169,
    "g": 227,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 86.565,
    "s": 70.053,
    "l": 63.333
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84941,
    "c": 0.17214,
    "h": 129.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.64218
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A9E360

secondary

#6D3BAC

accent

#13D268

background

#FDFEFC

surface

#F9FDF4

border

#D2D5CE

text

#13160D

muted

#82847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #A9E360

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

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