#BCD561#BCD561

#BCD561 is a very light, vivid yellow-green. Relative luminance 0.591; OKLCH L 83.1% C 0.145 H 119.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.83:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#BCD561
RGB	rgb(188, 213, 97)
HSL	hsl(73, 58%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(73, 54%, 84%)
CMYK	cmyk(11.7%, 0%, 54.5%, 16.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(81.37, -25.18, 53.69)
CIE-LCH	lch(81.37, 59.30, 115.12°)
OKLab	oklab(83.07% -0.072 0.1258)
OKLCH	oklch(83.07% 0.145 119.8)
XYZ	xyz(46.6915, 59.1431, 20.2629)
Luminance	0.5914 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow-green

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#BCD561 #7A61D5

analogous

#D5B461 #BCD561 #82D561

triadic

#BCD561 #61BCD5 #D561BC

tetradic

#BCD561 #61D5B4 #7A61D5 #D56182

square

#BCD561 #61D5B4 #7A61D5 #D56182

split-complementary

#BCD561 #6182D5 #B461D5

monochromatic

#7D9427 #A5C534 #BCD561 #D1E291 #E5EFC2

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.64

#BCD561 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.83

#BCD561 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #BCD561

12.83:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##BCD561	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##BCD561	1.00	1.64	12.83	12.83
#FFFFFF	1.64	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	12.83	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	12.83	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E1CA55

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#DECB68

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#C5CBBB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CACACA

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #bcd561;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(188, 213, 97);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(83.1% 0.145 119.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#d2e291',
    500: '#bcd561',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #bcd561;
$custom-light: #d2e291;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#bcd561",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 188,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 97
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 72.931,
    "s": 58,
    "l": 60.784
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.83069,
    "c": 0.14492,
    "h": 119.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.59143
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#BCD561

secondary

#544199

accent

#20C644

background

#FEFEFC

surface

#FBFCF4

border

#D4D5CE

text

#14150D

muted

#83847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #BCD561

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

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