#A9E751#A9E751

#A9E751 is a very light, vivid yellow-green. Relative luminance 0.662; OKLCH L 85.7% C 0.189 H 129.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.24:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A9E751
RGB	rgb(169, 231, 81)
HSL	hsl(85, 76%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(85, 65%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(26.8%, 0%, 64.9%, 9.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.09, -41.96, 64.30)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.09, 76.78, 123.13°)
OKLab	oklab(85.72% -0.1189 0.1468)
OKLCH	oklch(85.72% 0.189 129)
XYZ	xyz(46.4231, 66.1798, 18.1111)
Luminance	0.6618 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow-green

Closest named colors

Spring Green (survey)

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A9E751 #8F51E7

analogous

#E7DA51 #A9E751 #5EE751

triadic

#A9E751 #51A9E7 #E751A9

tetradic

#A9E751 #51E7DA #8F51E7 #E7515E

square

#A9E751 #51E7DA #8F51E7 #E7515E

split-complementary

#A9E751 #515EE7 #DA51E7

monochromatic

#6BA717 #8EDC1E #A9E751 #C4EE87 #DEF6BD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.48

#A9E751 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.24

#A9E751 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A9E751

14.24:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A9E751	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A9E751	1.00	1.48	14.24	14.24
#FFFFFF	1.48	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.24	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.24	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F2D73D

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E9D35D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#AEDDC8

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D4D4D4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a9e751;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(169, 231, 81);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.7% 0.189 129.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c6ef89',
    500: '#a9e751',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a9e751;
$custom-light: #c6ef89;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a9e751",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 169,
    "g": 231,
    "b": 81
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 84.8,
    "s": 75.758,
    "l": 61.176
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85718,
    "c": 0.18892,
    "h": 129
  },
  "luminance": 0.66181
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A9E751

secondary

#6434A8

accent

#0ED861

background

#FEFFFC

surface

#FAFEF4

border

#D3D6CE

text

#13160C

muted

#83857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #A9E751

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

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