Dark Lime #84B701

About this color

#84B701 is a medium-light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 72%, its chroma 0.185 and its hue 127°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Dark Lime. Black text reads best on it, at 8.75:1.

Colors that go with Dark Lime

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

Color palettes with Dark Lime

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

• Clementine Grove
• Kumquat Peel
• Hay and Buttercup
• Cherry and Rhubarb

Similar named colors

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

• Dark Lime Green #7EBD01 ΔE 0.017
• Icky Green #8FAE22 ΔE 0.032
• Bright Olive #9CBB04 ΔE 0.033
• Avocado #90B134 ΔE 0.034
• Pea Green #8EAB12 ΔE 0.035
• Turtle Green #75B84F ΔE 0.039
• Avocado Green #87A922 ΔE 0.042
• Frog Green #58BC08 ΔE 0.044

More about Dark Lime

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Dark Lime

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 brown

Recipe result: #81B835, a difference of ΔE 0.018 from Dark Lime. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dark Lime 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 Dark Lime

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

   #F3F8ED

   oklch(97.2% 0.015 126.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E4EED7

   oklch(93.5% 0.032 126.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #CEE2B4

   oklch(88.6% 0.065 126.8)

4. Step 300

   300

   #ACCF7B

   oklch(80.9% 0.117 127.3)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #84B701

   oklch(71.6% 0.185 127)

6. Step 500

   500

   #6F9A00

   oklch(63.1% 0.162 126.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #5C8200

   oklch(55.7% 0.144 127.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #4D6D00

   oklch(49.1% 0.127 127.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #3E5900

   oklch(42.6% 0.11 127.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #334A00

    oklch(37.6% 0.097 127.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #1D2C00

    oklch(26.9% 0.069 127)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dark Lime 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.