Pale Light Green #B1FC99

About this color

#B1FC99 is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.149 and its hue 138°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Light Green. Black text reads best on it, at 17.25:1.

Colors that go with Pale Light Green

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

Color palettes with Pale Light Green

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

• Laser Overdrive

Similar named colors

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

• Pastel Green #B0FF9D ΔE 0.008
• Light Pastel Green #B2FBA5 ΔE 0.015
• Celery #C1FD95 ΔE 0.018
• Pistachio #C0FA8B ΔE 0.019
• Pale Green #98FB98 ΔE 0.026
• Mint #9FFEB0 ΔE 0.028
• Washed Out Green #BCF5A6 ΔE 0.031
• Light Mint Green #A6FBB2 ΔE 0.031

More about Pale Light Green

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Pale Light 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 0.049 from Pale Light Green. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Light 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 Light 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

   #EDFAE9

   oklch(97.1% 0.026 138.3)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #B1FC99

   oklch(91.9% 0.149 138.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #B6EAA6

   oklch(88.4% 0.106 138.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #7CDD59

   oklch(81% 0.192 138.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #4BBE00

   oklch(70.7% 0.22 138.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #3FA300

   oklch(63.1% 0.197 138.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #348900

   oklch(55.6% 0.173 138.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #2A7300

   oklch(49% 0.153 138.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #215F00

   oklch(42.8% 0.134 138.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #1B4F00

    oklch(37.7% 0.117 138.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #0D2F00

    oklch(26.9% 0.084 138.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale Light 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.