Light Yellow Green #CCFD7F

About this color

#CCFD7F is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 93%, its chroma 0.163 and its hue 127°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Light Yellow Green. Black text reads best on it, at 17.92:1.

Colors that go with Light Yellow Green

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

Color palettes with Light Yellow Green

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

• Last Tram Home
• Laser Overdrive

Similar named colors

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

• Light Pea Green #C4FE82 ΔE 0.009
• Pistachio #C0FA8B ΔE 0.020
• Pale Lime #BEFD73 ΔE 0.022
• Celery #C1FD95 ΔE 0.024
• Pear #CBF85F ΔE 0.028
• Light Lime Green #B9FF66 ΔE 0.036
• Pale Light Green #B1FC99 ΔE 0.037
• Pastel Green #B0FF9D ΔE 0.038

More about Light Yellow Green

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Light Yellow 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 0.047 from Light Yellow Green. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Light Yellow 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 Yellow 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

   #F0F9E5

   oklch(97% 0.028 126.8)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #CCFD7F

   oklch(93.4% 0.163 126.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C5E892

   oklch(88.6% 0.117 126.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #9DD700

   oklch(80.9% 0.208 126.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #82B400

   oklch(70.8% 0.182 127)

6. Step 500

   500

   #6F9A00

   oklch(63.1% 0.162 126.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #5D8100

   oklch(55.5% 0.142 126.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #4D6D00

   oklch(49.1% 0.127 127.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #3F5900

   oklch(42.7% 0.11 126.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #344A00

    oklch(37.7% 0.097 126.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #1D2C00

    oklch(26.9% 0.069 127)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Light Yellow 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.