Pale Lime #BEFD73

About this color

#BEFD73 is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.180 and its hue 130°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Lime. Black text reads best on it, at 17.48:1.

Colors that go with Pale Lime

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

Color palettes with Pale Lime

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

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Similar named colors

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

• Light Lime Green #B9FF66 ΔE 0.016
• Light Pea Green #C4FE82 ΔE 0.017
• Key Lime #AEFF6E ΔE 0.019
• Pear #CBF85F ΔE 0.020
• Light Lime #AEFD6C ΔE 0.020
• Light Yellow Green #CCFD7F ΔE 0.022
• Pale Lime Green #B1FF65 ΔE 0.022
• Pistachio #C0FA8B ΔE 0.028

More about Pale Lime

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Pale 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.

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

Recipe result: #CFEB7D, a difference of ΔE 0.055 from Pale Lime. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale 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 Pale 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 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EFFAE4

   oklch(97.1% 0.031 128.8)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #BEFD73

   oklch(92.4% 0.18 129.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BDEA8E

   oklch(88.4% 0.128 129.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #91DA00

   oklch(80.9% 0.217 129.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #78B600

   oklch(70.7% 0.19 129.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #679C00

   oklch(63.1% 0.169 129.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #568300

   oklch(55.6% 0.149 129.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #476E00

   oklch(49% 0.131 129.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #3A5A00

   oklch(42.6% 0.114 129.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #2F4B00

    oklch(37.6% 0.101 129.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #1A2D00

    oklch(27% 0.073 130.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale 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.