Apple #6ECB3C

About this color

#6ECB3C is a medium-light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 76%, its chroma 0.197 and its hue 137°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Apple. Black text reads best on it, at 10.27:1.

Colors that go with Apple

Matches found by rotating Apple around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Apple

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Apple, closest first.

• Lollipop Party
• Clementine Grove
• Kumquat Peel

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Apple, with their ΔE distance.

• Apple Green #76CD26 ΔE 0.015
• Fresh Green #69D84F ΔE 0.034
• Dark Lime Green #7EBD01 ΔE 0.038
• Lime Green #32CD32 ΔE 0.041
• Slime Green #99CC04 ΔE 0.045
• Yellow Green #9ACD32 ΔE 0.046
• Frog Green #58BC08 ΔE 0.052
• Dark Lime #84B701 ΔE 0.053

More about Apple

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Apple

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts yellow
• 3 parts green
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #83C137, a difference of ΔE 0.030 from Apple. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Apple in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Apple

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F0F8ED

   oklch(97% 0.017 137)

2. Step 100

   100

   #DFF0D9

   oklch(93.6% 0.035 137.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C4E4B8

   oklch(88.4% 0.068 137.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #9BD383

   oklch(80.9% 0.123 136.7)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #6ECB3C

   oklch(75.7% 0.197 136.8)

6. Step 500

   500

   #49A200

   oklch(63.2% 0.191 136.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #3D8800

   oklch(55.6% 0.168 136.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #327200

   oklch(49% 0.148 136.7)

9. Step 800

   800

   #285E00

   oklch(42.8% 0.129 136.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #204E00

    oklch(37.6% 0.113 136.7)

11. Step 950

    950

    #102F00

    oklch(27.1% 0.082 137)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Apple with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.