Key Lime #AEFF6E

About this color

#AEFF6E is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.195 and its hue 133°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Key Lime. Black text reads best on it, at 17.32:1.

Colors that go with Key Lime

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

Color palettes with Key Lime

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

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

Similar named colors

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

• Light Lime #AEFD6C ΔE 0.005
• Pale Lime Green #B1FF65 ΔE 0.008
• Light Lime Green #B9FF66 ΔE 0.012
• Pale Lime #BEFD73 ΔE 0.019
• Light Grass Green #9AF764 ΔE 0.032
• Pear #CBF85F ΔE 0.033
• Easter Green #8CFD7E ΔE 0.034
• Light Pea Green #C4FE82 ΔE 0.034

More about Key Lime

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Key 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 white
• 2 parts yellow
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #CFEB7D, a difference of ΔE 0.070 from Key Lime. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Key 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 Key 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 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EDFBE4

   oklch(97.2% 0.034 132.9)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #AEFF6E

   oklch(91.8% 0.195 133.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #B4ED8C

   oklch(88.5% 0.139 133.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #80DE00

   oklch(81% 0.23 133.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #6AB900

   oklch(70.7% 0.2 133.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #5A9F00

   oklch(63.2% 0.179 133.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #4B8500

   oklch(55.5% 0.157 133.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #3E7000

   oklch(49% 0.139 133.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #325C00

   oklch(42.7% 0.121 133.3)

10. Step 900

    900

    #294D00

    oklch(37.8% 0.107 133.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #162E00

    oklch(27.1% 0.077 133.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Key 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.