Lemon Lime #BFFE28

About this color

#BFFE28 is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.226 and its hue 126°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Lemon Lime. Black text reads best on it, at 17.42:1.

Colors that go with Lemon Lime

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

Color palettes with Lemon Lime

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

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Similar named colors

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

• Yellowgreen #BBF90F ΔE 0.015
• Greeny Yellow #C6F808 ΔE 0.015
• Neon Yellow #CFFF04 ΔE 0.019
• Green Yellow #ADFF2F ΔE 0.019
• Lime Yellow #D0FE1D ΔE 0.019
• Electric Lime #A8FF04 ΔE 0.028
• Lemon Green #ADF802 ΔE 0.028
• Pale Lime Green #B1FF65 ΔE 0.034

More about Lemon Lime

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Lemon 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
• 3 parts yellow
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #D4E663, a difference of ΔE 0.085 from Lemon Lime. Lemon 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 Lemon 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 Lemon 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

   #EFFBDF

   oklch(97.2% 0.039 126.1)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #BFFE28

   oklch(92.1% 0.226 126.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BEEC6F

   oklch(88.5% 0.161 126.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #9FD700

   oklch(81% 0.207 126.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #84B300

   oklch(70.7% 0.18 126.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #719900

   oklch(63% 0.16 126)

7. Step 600

   600

   #5E8100

   oklch(55.6% 0.142 126.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #4F6C00

   oklch(49% 0.125 125.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #405900

   oklch(42.8% 0.109 126.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #354A00

    oklch(37.7% 0.096 125.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #1E2C00

    oklch(27% 0.069 126.1)

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Lemon 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.