Pale Green #98FB98

About this color

#98FB98 is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 90%, its chroma 0.162 and its hue 144°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Green. Black text reads best on it, at 16.58:1.

Colors that go with Pale Green

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

Color palettes with Pale Green

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

No curated palette has a color within ΔE 0.06 of Pale Green yet.

Similar named colors

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

• Mint Green #8FFF9F ΔE 0.012
• Baby Green #8CFF9E ΔE 0.013
• Foam Green #90FDA9 ΔE 0.019
• Pale Light Green #B1FC99 ΔE 0.026
• Pastel Green #B0FF9D ΔE 0.028
• Mint #9FFEB0 ΔE 0.030
• Seafoam #80F9AD ΔE 0.032
• Seafoam Green #7AF9AB ΔE 0.033

More about Pale Green

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Pale 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.

• 3 parts white
• 1 part yellow
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #BFE994, a difference of ΔE 0.057 from Pale Green. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale 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 Pale 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 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EBFBEA

   oklch(97.2% 0.028 143.7)

2. Step 100

   100

   #D2F5D1

   oklch(93.6% 0.06 144.3)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #98FB98

   oklch(90.4% 0.162 144.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #59E260

   oklch(81% 0.209 144.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00C22A

   oklch(70.7% 0.228 144.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A723

   oklch(63.2% 0.204 144.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008C1B

   oklch(55.6% 0.18 144)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007615

   oklch(49.1% 0.159 144)

9. Step 800

   800

   #006110

   oklch(42.8% 0.138 144.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #00510B

    oklch(37.8% 0.122 144)

11. Step 950

    950

    #003004

    oklch(26.8% 0.087 144)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale 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.