Lime #00FF00

About this color

#00FF00 is a light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 87%, its chroma 0.295 and its hue 142°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Lime. Black text reads best on it, at 15.30:1.

Colors that go with Lime

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

Color palettes with Lime

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

• Ultraviolet Afterhours
• Electric Overdrive

Similar named colors

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

• Bright Green #01FF07 ΔE 0.001
• Fluro Green #0AFF02 ΔE 0.001
• Fluorescent Green #08FF08 ΔE 0.001
• Neon Green #0CFF0C ΔE 0.002
• Highlighter Green #1BFC06 ΔE 0.008
• Electric Green #21FC0D ΔE 0.009
• Hot Green #25FF29 ΔE 0.011
• Poison Green #40FD14 ΔE 0.014

More about Lime

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make 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.

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

Recipe result: #B8DC53, a difference of ΔE 0.151 from Lime. 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 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 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 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #E3FFE0

   oklch(97.2% 0.05 142.5)

2. Step 100

   100

   #BFFDBA

   oklch(93.5% 0.109 142.8)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #00FF00

   oklch(86.6% 0.295 142.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #00E900

   oklch(80.9% 0.275 142.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00C300

   oklch(70.8% 0.241 142.5)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A700

   oklch(63.1% 0.215 142.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008C00

   oklch(55.5% 0.189 142.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007600

   oklch(49% 0.167 142.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #006100

   oklch(42.7% 0.145 142.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #005100

    oklch(37.7% 0.128 142.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #003100

    oklch(27.1% 0.092 142.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

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.