Light Lime Green #B9FF66

About this color

#B9FF66 is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.196 and its hue 130°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Light Lime Green. Black text reads best on it, at 17.55:1.

Colors that go with Light Lime Green

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

Color palettes with Light Lime Green

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

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Similar named colors

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

• Pale Lime Green #B1FF65 ΔE 0.009
• Key Lime #AEFF6E ΔE 0.012
• Light Lime #AEFD6C ΔE 0.014
• Pale Lime #BEFD73 ΔE 0.016
• Pear #CBF85F ΔE 0.024
• Light Pea Green #C4FE82 ΔE 0.032
• Lemon Lime #BFFE28 ΔE 0.034
• Light Yellow Green #CCFD7F ΔE 0.036

More about Light Lime Green

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Light Lime 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.

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

Recipe result: #CFEB7D, a difference of ΔE 0.068 from Light Lime Green. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Light Lime 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 Light Lime 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 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EEFBE3

   oklch(97.2% 0.034 130.5)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #B9FF66

   oklch(92.4% 0.196 130.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BAEC87

   oklch(88.6% 0.14 130.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #8FDA00

   oklch(80.8% 0.218 130.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #77B600

   oklch(70.6% 0.19 130.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #659C00

   oklch(63% 0.17 130.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #548300

   oklch(55.5% 0.15 130.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #466F00

   oklch(49.2% 0.133 130.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #395B00

   oklch(42.8% 0.116 130.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #2E4B00

    oklch(37.5% 0.101 130.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #1A2D00

    oklch(27% 0.073 130.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Light Lime 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.