Pistachio #C0FA8B

About this color

#C0FA8B is a very light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.153 and its hue 131°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Pistachio. Black text reads best on it, at 17.28:1.

Colors that go with Pistachio

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

Color palettes with Pistachio

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

• Laser Overdrive

Similar named colors

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

• Celery #C1FD95 ΔE 0.012
• Light Pea Green #C4FE82 ΔE 0.017
• Pale Light Green #B1FC99 ΔE 0.019
• Light Yellow Green #CCFD7F ΔE 0.020
• Pastel Green #B0FF9D ΔE 0.022
• Pale Lime #BEFD73 ΔE 0.028
• Light Pastel Green #B2FBA5 ΔE 0.029
• Washed Out Green #BCF5A6 ΔE 0.037

More about Pistachio

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Pistachio

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 0.039 from Pistachio. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pistachio 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 Pistachio

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

   #EFF9E7

   oklch(97% 0.026 130.9)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #C0FA8B

   oklch(92.1% 0.153 131.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BFE99C

   oklch(88.6% 0.11 131.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #91D93D

   oklch(80.9% 0.196 131.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #72B700

   oklch(70.6% 0.194 131.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #619D00

   oklch(63% 0.173 131.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #518400

   oklch(55.5% 0.153 131.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #436F00

   oklch(49% 0.135 131.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #365B00

   oklch(42.7% 0.117 131.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #2C4C00

    oklch(37.7% 0.104 131.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #182D00

    oklch(26.9% 0.074 131.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pistachio 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.