#A9E366#A9E366

#A9E366 is a very light, vivid yellow-green. Relative luminance 0.643; OKLCH L 85.0% C 0.167 H 130.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.87:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A9E366
RGB	rgb(169, 227, 102)
HSL	hsl(88, 69%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(88, 55%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(25.6%, 0%, 55.1%, 11%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.14, -38.42, 54.32)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.14, 66.53, 125.27°)
OKLab	oklab(85.01% -0.1074 0.1278)
OKLCH	oklch(85.01% 0.167 130)
XYZ	xyz(46.2291, 64.3314, 22.5494)
Luminance	0.6433 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow-green

Closest named colors

Spring Green (survey)

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A9E366 #A066E3

analogous

#E3DF66 #A9E366 #6BE366

triadic

#A9E366 #66A9E3 #E366A9

tetradic

#A9E366 #66E3DF #A066E3 #E3666B

square

#A9E366 #66E3DF #A066E3 #E3666B

split-complementary

#A9E366 #666BE3 #DF66E3

monochromatic

#6CAF20 #8CDA32 #A9E366 #C6EC9A #E3F6CD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.51

#A9E366 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.87

#A9E366 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A9E366

13.87:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A9E366	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A9E366	1.00	1.51	13.87	13.87
#FFFFFF	1.51	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.87	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.87	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#ECD55A

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E4D06E

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#ADDAC7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a9e366;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(169, 227, 102);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.0% 0.167 130.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c5ec95',
    500: '#a9e366',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a9e366;
$custom-light: #c5ec95;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a9e366",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 169,
    "g": 227,
    "b": 102
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 87.84,
    "s": 69.061,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85008,
    "c": 0.16698,
    "h": 130
  },
  "luminance": 0.64332
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A9E366

secondary

#723DB0

accent

#14D16C

background

#FDFEFC

surface

#F9FDF5

border

#D2D5CF

text

#13160D

muted

#82847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #A9E366

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

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