Fluorescent Green #08FF08

About this color

#08FF08 is a light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 87%, its chroma 0.294 and its hue 143°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Fluorescent Green. Black text reads best on it, at 15.31:1.

Colors that go with Fluorescent Green

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

Color palettes with Fluorescent Green

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

• Ultraviolet Afterhours
• Electric Overdrive

Similar named colors

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

• Bright Green #01FF07 ΔE 0.001
• Neon Green #0CFF0C ΔE 0.001
• Fluro Green #0AFF02 ΔE 0.001
• Lime #00FF00 ΔE 0.001
• Highlighter Green #1BFC06 ΔE 0.008
• Electric Green #21FC0D ΔE 0.008
• Hot Green #25FF29 ΔE 0.010
• Poison Green #40FD14 ΔE 0.013

More about Fluorescent Green

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Fluorescent Green

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.

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

Recipe result: #B8DC53, a difference of ΔE 0.150 from Fluorescent Green. Fluorescent Green 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 Fluorescent Green 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 Fluorescent Green

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

   #E3FFE0

   oklch(97.2% 0.05 142.5)

2. Step 100

   100

   #C0FDBA

   oklch(93.6% 0.108 142.4)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #08FF08

   oklch(86.7% 0.294 142.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #00E901

   oklch(80.9% 0.275 142.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00C301

   oklch(70.8% 0.241 142.5)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A701

   oklch(63.1% 0.215 142.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008C00

   oklch(55.5% 0.189 142.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007600

   oklch(49% 0.167 142.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #006100

   oklch(42.7% 0.145 142.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #005100

    oklch(37.7% 0.128 142.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #003100

    oklch(27.1% 0.092 142.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Fluorescent Green 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.