Celery #C1FD95

About this color

#C1FD95 is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 93%, its chroma 0.147 and its hue 133°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Celery. Black text reads best on it, at 17.75:1.

Colors that go with Celery

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

Color palettes with Celery

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

• Laser Overdrive
• Onyx and Brass
• Gumdrop Treasure
• Pot Loggia

Similar named colors

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

• Pistachio #C0FA8B ΔE 0.012
• Pale Light Green #B1FC99 ΔE 0.018
• Pastel Green #B0FF9D ΔE 0.018
• Light Pea Green #C4FE82 ΔE 0.021
• Light Yellow Green #CCFD7F ΔE 0.024
• Light Pastel Green #B2FBA5 ΔE 0.024
• Light Light Green #C8FFB0 ΔE 0.033
• Washed Out Green #BCF5A6 ΔE 0.034

More about Celery

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Celery

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 white
• 2 parts yellow
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #CFEB7D, a difference of ΔE 0.046 from Celery. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Celery 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 Celery

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 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EFF9E8

   oklch(97% 0.025 132.1)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #C1FD95

   oklch(93% 0.147 133)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BEE8A1

   oklch(88.4% 0.104 133.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #8ED94C

   oklch(80.8% 0.188 133.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #6BB900

   oklch(70.7% 0.2 133.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #5B9F00

   oklch(63.2% 0.179 133.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #4C8500

   oklch(55.5% 0.157 132.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #3F7000

   oklch(49.1% 0.138 133)

9. Step 800

   800

   #335C00

   oklch(42.8% 0.12 132.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #294D00

    oklch(37.8% 0.107 133.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #162E00

    oklch(27.1% 0.077 133.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Celery 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.