Electric Lime #A8FF04

About this color

#A8FF04 is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 91%, its chroma 0.245 and its hue 130°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Electric Lime. Black text reads best on it, at 16.97:1.

Colors that go with Electric Lime

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

Color palettes with Electric Lime

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

No curated palette has a color within ΔE 0.06 of Electric Lime yet.

Similar named colors

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

• Bright Yellow Green #9DFF00 ΔE 0.011
• Green Yellow #ADFF2F ΔE 0.012
• Lemon Green #ADF802 ΔE 0.018
• Acid Green #8FFE09 ΔE 0.024
• Yellowgreen #BBF90F ΔE 0.025
• Lemon Lime #BFFE28 ΔE 0.028
• Bright Lime #87FD05 ΔE 0.032
• Greeny Yellow #C6F808 ΔE 0.036

More about Electric Lime

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Electric 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.

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

Recipe result: #C6E56A, a difference of ΔE 0.103 from Electric Lime. Electric Lime is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made green paint and adjust it.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Electric 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 Electric 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 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #ECFCDE

   oklch(97.1% 0.043 130.2)

2. Step 100

   100

   #D6F7B7

   oklch(93.7% 0.091 130.2)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #A8FF04

   oklch(90.9% 0.245 130.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #8FDA00

   oklch(80.8% 0.218 130.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #77B600

   oklch(70.6% 0.19 130.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #659C00

   oklch(63% 0.17 130.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #548300

   oklch(55.5% 0.15 130.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #466F00

   oklch(49.2% 0.133 130.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #395B00

   oklch(42.8% 0.116 130.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #2E4B00

    oklch(37.5% 0.101 130.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #1A2D00

    oklch(27% 0.073 130.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Electric 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.