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PaleGreen color

Inspect PaleGreen (#98FB98) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.

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PaleGreen

PaleGreen color values

PaleGreen

#98FB98

Black text reads best on this background, at 16.59:1.

PaleGreen is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #98FB98 in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(152, 251, 152) and hsl(120, 93%, 79%). Perceptually it is a very light, moderately saturated color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 90% and its chroma at 0.162. It sits in the greens at 144 degrees of OKLCH hue, and reads as a cool color.

White text only reaches 1.27:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 16.59:1. Because it is this light, PaleGreen works best as a page or card background with dark text over it.

The closest CSS named colors to PaleGreen, measured with CIEDE2000, are LightGreen (#90EE90), SpringGreen (#00FF7F), MediumSpringGreen (#00FA9A). If PaleGreen is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.

HEX

#98FB98

RGB

rgb(152, 251, 152)

HSL

hsl(120, 93%, 79%)

HWB

hwb(120 60% 2%)

CMYK

cmyk(39%, 0%, 39%, 2%)

LAB

lab(90.8 -44.84 37.95)

LCH

lch(90.8 58.74 139.76)

OKLCH

oklch(90.35% 0.1624 144.09)

Is PaleGreen accessible?

WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #98FB98 white text measures 1.27:1 and black text 16.59:1, so black clears it and white does not.

White text on PaleGreen

WCAG 2.2

1.27:1

APCA

Lc 15

Fails AA body text

Fails AAA body text

Fails AA large text

Black text on PaleGreen

WCAG 2.2

16.59:1

APCA

Lc 90

Passes AA body text

Passes AAA body text

Passes AA large text

Check PaleGreen against any other color in the contrast checker.

Tints and shades of PaleGreen

PaleGreen sits at 90% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it up to #EBFFEA and down to #000900, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.

Tints, toward white

#A1FFA1

20% lighter

#B7FFB5

40% lighter

#CAFFC8

60% lighter

#DBFFDA

80% lighter

#EBFFEA

100% lighter

Shades, toward black

#65C767

20% darker

#2F9536

40% darker

#006310

60% darker

#003205

80% darker

#000900

100% darker

Build a full accessible scale from #98FB98 in the shade generator.

Colors that go with PaleGreen

Hues rotated around #98FB98 in OKLCH, then pulled back into the sRGB gamut. Each swatch is labelled with the nearest CSS named color so you have a keyword to start from.

Complementary

PaleGreen sits at 144 degrees. Rotating it a half turn lands on 324 degrees, the hue directly opposite. It is the strongest pairing you can make without changing lightness, and the one most likely to vibrate if you use both at full chroma.

Thistle

#FCCDFF

Analogous

The neighbors of PaleGreen at 114 and 174 degrees. They stay close enough to read as the same family, which is what you want for hover states, secondary surfaces and gradients.

Khaki

#DEEB5F

Aquamarine

#56FFD8

Triadic

144, 264 and 24 degrees divide the wheel into thirds. Balanced enough to carry a whole palette without one color dominating the other two.

Lavender

#D0E0FF

MistyRose

#FFD3CF

Split complementary

Instead of the complement at 324 degrees, this pair flanks it at 294 and 354. You keep most of the contrast of a complementary pairing while losing the harshness.

Lavender

#E0D9FF

Pink

#FFD0E2

Explore more combinations around PaleGreen on the color wheel.

How PaleGreen looks with color blindness

The biggest shift is under achromatopsia, where #98FB98 reads as #DFDFDF, 26.2 CIEDE2000 units away. If PaleGreen is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.

Protanopia

#FFE693

Deuteranopia

#EDDB9C

Tritanopia

#90F4DC

Achromatopsia

#DFDFDF