Greeny Yellow #C6F808

About this color

#C6F808 is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 91%, its chroma 0.223 and its hue 123°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Greeny Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 16.83:1.

Colors that go with Greeny Yellow

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

Color palettes with Greeny Yellow

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

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Similar named colors

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

• Yellowgreen #BBF90F ΔE 0.013
• Lemon Lime #BFFE28 ΔE 0.015
• Lime Yellow #D0FE1D ΔE 0.021
• Neon Yellow #CFFF04 ΔE 0.022
• Yellowy Green #BFF128 ΔE 0.023
• Lemon Green #ADF802 ΔE 0.029
• Green Yellow #ADFF2F ΔE 0.029
• Electric Lime #A8FF04 ΔE 0.036

More about Greeny Yellow

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Greeny 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.

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

Recipe result: #D4E663, a difference of ΔE 0.075 from Greeny Yellow. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Greeny 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 Greeny 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

   #F0FADE

   oklch(97% 0.038 123.1)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #C6F808

   oklch(91.1% 0.223 123.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C5EA6B

   oklch(88.5% 0.159 123.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #A9D400

   oklch(81% 0.199 123.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #8CB100

   oklch(70.7% 0.174 123.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #789800

   oklch(63.2% 0.156 123.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #647F00

   oklch(55.5% 0.136 123.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #546B00

   oklch(49.1% 0.121 123.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #445800

   oklch(42.8% 0.106 123.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #384900

    oklch(37.7% 0.093 123.4)

11. Step 950

    950

    #202B00

    oklch(26.9% 0.066 123.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Greeny 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.