Green Yellow #ADFF2F

About this color

#ADFF2F is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 91%, its chroma 0.233 and its hue 130°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Green Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 17.12:1.

Colors that go with Green Yellow

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

Color palettes with Green Yellow

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

No curated palette has a color within ΔE 0.06 of Green Yellow yet.

Similar named colors

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

• Electric Lime #A8FF04 ΔE 0.012
• Lemon Green #ADF802 ΔE 0.019
• Yellowgreen #BBF90F ΔE 0.019
• Lemon Lime #BFFE28 ΔE 0.019
• Bright Yellow Green #9DFF00 ΔE 0.021
• Greeny Yellow #C6F808 ΔE 0.029
• Acid Green #8FFE09 ΔE 0.033
• Pale Lime Green #B1FF65 ΔE 0.034

More about Green Yellow

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Green Yellow

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 0.094 from Green Yellow. Green Yellow 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 Green Yellow 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 Green Yellow

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

   #EDFBDF

   oklch(97% 0.04 128.9)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #ADFF2F

   oklch(91.3% 0.233 130)

3. Step 200

   200

   #B4EF72

   oklch(88.6% 0.167 130.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #90DA00

   oklch(80.8% 0.218 130)

5. Step 400

   400

   #78B600

   oklch(70.7% 0.19 129.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #669C00

   oklch(63% 0.17 129.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #558300

   oklch(55.5% 0.149 129.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #476E00

   oklch(49% 0.131 129.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #395A00

   oklch(42.6% 0.114 129.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #2F4B00

    oklch(37.6% 0.101 129.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #1A2D00

    oklch(27% 0.073 130.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Green Yellow 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.