Photo in the color Chartreuse (traditional)
Pictured: Chartreuse (traditional), the closest color we have a photo of (#DFFF00)
rgb(227, 255, 0)
#E3FF00

Lemon Lime #E3FF00 RGB Color Code

Lemon Lime (#E3FF00) is a vivid, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 89% red, 100% green and 0% blue (R 227, G 255, B 0). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 67°, 100% saturation and 50% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.879, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 11% cyan, 0% magenta, 100% yellow and 0% 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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Lemon Lime color codes

#E3FF00 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #E3FF00 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(227, 255, 0) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(67, 100%, 50%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(67, 100%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(67 0% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(11%, 0%, 100%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(94.66% 0.2193 117.52) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(94.66% -0.1013 0.1945) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(95.49% -26.92 90.74) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(95.49% 94.65 106.53) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.911 0.9966 0.3237) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.6744 0.8785 0.134) Valid CSS
Decimal 14941952 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.8785. Nearest web-safe color: #CCFF00.

Mix Lemon Lime with other colors

See what #E3FF00 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.

PaintLemon Lime and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightLemon Lime and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintLemon Lime and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalLemon Lime blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Lemon 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--lemon-lime: #E3FF00;
Sass variable$lemon-lime: #E3FF00;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-lemon-lime: #E3FF00; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'lemon-lime': '#E3FF00' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.89, green: 1, blue: 0)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.89, green: 1, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="lemon_lime">#FFE3FF00</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFE3FF00)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #E3FF00 (18.57:1, AAA). Here is how #E3FF00 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.13:1 on white
APCA Lc 0
Fails AATry #6F7E00
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
18.57:1 on black
APCA Lc -99
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 Lemon Lime

#E3FF00 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

#E3FF00 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 Lemon Lime

Named after a soda flavor

Lemon lime is named after clear sodas with a lemon and lime taste, such as Sprite and 7 Up. The Wikipedia section on lemon lime calls #E3FF00 a fluorescent kind of chartreuse. Its only listed source is Sprite, and that claim is marked as needing a citation.

Two colors, one name

Wikipedia's alphabetical list has a second lemon lime, #5CFF67, which is a minty green. This page is about the yellow one. It sits between lemon and electric lime. Black text on it gets a contrast ratio of 18.57 to 1.

Lemon Lime in a user interface

A sample app screen with #E3FF00 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #E3FF00 as it is. On the light theme, #E3FF00 is too hard to read as text (1.13:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #6F7E00 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Lemon Lime

These schemes turn the hue of #E3FF00 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#E3FF00#1C00FF

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FF9C00this#E3FF00#64FF00

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#E3FF00#00E3FF#FF00E3

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#E3FF00#0064FF#9C00FF

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#E3FF00#00FF1C#1C00FF#FF00E3

Square

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

Open palette
this#E3FF00#00FF9C#1C00FF#FF0063

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#5B6600#A5B900#E4FF0D#EEFF60#F7FFB3

Gradients with Lemon Lime

Four CSS gradients made from #E3FF00. 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, #F9FFE6, #E3FF00);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #E3FF00, #3F4800);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FF9C00, #E3FF00, #64FF00);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E3FF00, #98F4B1, #00E3FF);

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Shades, tints and tones of Lemon 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)

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

  1. 50
    F2FEC4
  2. 100
    E3FF00
  3. 200
    D3E778
  4. 300
    B9CF23
  5. 400
    9CAF00
  6. 500
    809100
  7. 600
    677400
  8. 700
    515C00
  9. 800
    3F4800
  10. 900
    2E3500
  11. 950
    1B2000

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #E3FF00 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1026 Luminous yellow#FFFF00, very close (ΔE 3.7)Tailwind CSSlime-300 #BEF264, close (ΔE 7.1)CSS color namesyellow #FFFF00, very close (ΔE 3.7)

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 yellow or search the color library.