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Pictured: Light khaki, the closest color we have a photo of (#F0E68D)
rgb(232, 244, 140)
#E8F48C

Key Lime #E8F48C RGB Color Code

Key Lime (#E8F48C) is a moderately saturated, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 91% red, 96% green and 55% blue (R 232, G 244, B 140). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 67Β°, 83% saturation and 75% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.838, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 5% cyan, 0% magenta, 43% yellow and 4% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Key Lime color codes

#E8F48C in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #E8F48C Valid CSS
RGB rgb(232, 244, 140) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(67, 83%, 75%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(67, 43%, 96%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(67 55% 4%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(5%, 0%, 43%, 4%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(93.6% 0.1288 114.31) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(93.6% -0.053 0.1174) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(93.62% -15.19 48.46) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(93.62% 50.79 107.41) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9184 0.9553 0.5996) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.7036 0.8375 0.3727) Valid CSS
Decimal 15266956 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.8375. Nearest web-safe color: #FFFF99.

Mix Key Lime with other colors

See what #E8F48C 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.

PaintKey Lime and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightKey Lime and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintKey Lime and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalKey Lime blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Key Lime 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--key-lime: #E8F48C;
Sass variable$key-lime: #E8F48C;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-key-lime: #E8F48C; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'key-lime': '#E8F48C' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.91, green: 0.957, blue: 0.549)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.91, green: 0.957, blue: 0.549, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="key_lime">#FFE8F48C</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFE8F48C)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #E8F48C (17.75:1, AAA). Here is how #E8F48C does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.18:1 on white
APCA Lc 9
Fails AATry #747D00
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
17.75:1 on black
APCA Lc -95
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 Key Lime

#E8F48C 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

#E8F48C 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 Key Lime

From a pearly crayon

This color comes from Key Lime Pearl, one of the Pearl Brite crayons. Crayola sold them in a pack of 16 starting in 1997. The list of Crayola crayon colors gives it as #E8F48C. A flat screen color can't copy the shimmer of the wax, so this is only the base tint.

The fruit behind the name

The Key lime is a small, sour lime with a thin rind. It gets its name from the Florida Keys, where it is best known as the main flavor in Key lime pie. The fruit itself is green, while the crayon is a pale yellow green.

Close colors on this site are mindaro and laser lemon. White text is almost unreadable on Key lime, so pair it with a dark color.

Key Lime in a user interface

A sample app screen with #E8F48C as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #E8F48C as it is. On the light theme, #E8F48C is too hard to read as text (1.18:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #747D00 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Key Lime

These schemes turn the hue of #E8F48C 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#E8F48C#988CF4

Analogous

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

Open palette
#F4CC8Cthis#E8F48C#B4F48C

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#E8F48C#8CE8F4#F48CE8

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#E8F48C#8CB4F4#CC8CF4

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#E8F48C#8CF498#988CF4#F48CE8

Square

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

Open palette
this#E8F48C#8CF4CC#988CF4#F48CB4

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#535D09#97A910#D3EA22#E2F16E#F1F8B9

Gradients with Key Lime

Four CSS gradients made from #E8F48C. 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, #FAFDEA, #E8F48C);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #E8F48C, #404423);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4CC8C, #E8F48C, #B4F48C);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E8F48C, #BDEFC5, #8CE8F4);

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Shades, tints and tones of Key Lime

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)

Key Lime sits at step 100. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F6FBD9
  2. 100
    E8F48C
  3. 200
    D9E2A4
  4. 300
    BFC978
  5. 400
    A2AC4A
  6. 500
    858E1F
  7. 600
    6B7300
  8. 700
    555B00
  9. 800
    424700
  10. 900
    303400
  11. 950
    1D1F03

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #E8F48C in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1016 Sulfur yellow#F1DD38, close (Ξ”E 7.2)Tailwind CSSlime-200 #D9F99D, very close (Ξ”E 2.3)CSS color nameskhaki #F0E68C, very close (Ξ”E 3.7)

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of yellow or search the color library.