Photo in the color Green-yellow
Pictured: Green-yellow
rgb(173, 255, 47)
#ADFF2F

Green-Yellow #ADFF2F RGB Color Code

CSS keyword greenyellow.

Green-Yellow (#ADFF2F) is a vivid, very light green. In RGB it is made of 68% red, 100% green and 18% blue (R 173, G 255, B 47). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 84°, 100% saturation and 59% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.806, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 32% cyan, 0% magenta, 82% yellow and 0% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Green-Yellow color codes

#ADFF2F in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #ADFF2F Valid CSS
CSS name greenyellow Valid CSS
RGB rgb(173, 255, 47) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(84, 100%, 59%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(84, 82%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(84 18% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(32%, 0%, 82%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(91.3% 0.2335 130.02) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(91.3% -0.1501 0.1788) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(92.2% -46.41 80.45) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(92.2% 92.88 119.98) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.7492 0.9915 0.3582) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.535 0.8061 0.1543) Valid CSS
Decimal 11403055 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.8061. Nearest web-safe color: #99FF33.

Mix Green-Yellow with other colors

See what #ADFF2F makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintGreen-Yellow and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightGreen-Yellow and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintGreen-Yellow and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalGreen-Yellow blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Green-Yellow in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--green-yellow: #ADFF2F;
Sass variable$green-yellow: #ADFF2F;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-green-yellow: #ADFF2F; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'green-yellow': '#ADFF2F' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.678, green: 1, blue: 0.184)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.678, green: 1, blue: 0.184, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="green_yellow">#FFADFF2F</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFADFF2F)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #ADFF2F (17.12:1, AAA). Here is how #ADFF2F does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.23:1 on white
APCA Lc 11
Fails AATry #558400
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
17.12:1 on black
APCA Lc -93
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Green-Yellow

#ADFF2F next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#ADFF2F stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Green-Yellow

A web color taken from X11

In CSS, the keyword greenyellow gives #ADFF2F. The name comes from the X11 color list, which CSS adopted along with most of its other color words. The CSS Color spec lists it with the rest. It is a light, very bright green, a paler tint of CSS chartreuse, #7FFF00.

Easy to mix up

CSS also has yellowgreen, a different and darker color, #9ACD32. In code, only the word order tells them apart.

Crayola has made a Green-Yellow crayon since 1958, but it is a pale yellow close to #F1E788. It looks nothing like the web color.

Black text on #ADFF2F has a contrast ratio of 17.12 to 1. White text on it is very hard to read, at 1.23 to 1.

Green-Yellow in a user interface

A sample app screen with #ADFF2F as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #ADFF2F as it is. On the light theme, #ADFF2F is too hard to read as text (1.23:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #558400 there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Green-Yellow

These schemes turn the hue of #ADFF2F around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#ADFF2F#812FFF

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#FFE92Fthis#ADFF2F#45FF2F

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#ADFF2F#2FADFF#FF2FAD

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#ADFF2F#2F45FF#E92FFF

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#ADFF2F#2FFF81#812FFF#FF2FAD

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#ADFF2F#2FFFE9#812FFF#FF2F45

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#3E6600#70B900#9FFF0D#C0FF60#E1FFB3

Gradients with Green-Yellow

Four CSS gradients made from #ADFF2F. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #F0FFE3, #ADFF2F);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #ADFF2F, #2D4806);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFE92F, #ADFF2F, #45FF2F);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ADFF2F, #6EDAB8, #2FADFF);

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Shades, tints and tones of Green-Yellow

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Green-Yellow sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    EBFFD8
  2. 100
    D5FCAF
  3. 200
    ADFF2F
  4. 300
    97D83F
  5. 400
    79B900
  6. 500
    639900
  7. 600
    4F7B00
  8. 700
    3E6200
  9. 800
    2F4C00
  10. 900
    223800
  11. 950
    132200

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #ADFF2F in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1026 Luminous yellow#FFFF00, close (ΔE 9.8)Tailwind CSSlime-300 #BEF264, close (ΔE 5.8)CSS color namesgreenyellow #ADFF2F, exact match (ΔE 0.0)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of green or search the color library.