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Light Green

Hex #90EE90, rgb(144 238 144). A green CSS named color.

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About Light Green

Light Green is a light saturated green with the hex code #90EE90. In RGB it is made of 144 red, 238 green and 144 blue; in HSL its hue is 120°, with 73% saturation and 75% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 86.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lightgreen" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.42:1 and against black 14.82:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Light Green mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

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Tones (with gray)

Light Green 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Light Green

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Analogous

Triadic

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Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Light Green with white and black. The readable text color on Light Green is black.

Light Green textSmall text on white

On white1.42:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 20

Light Green textSmall text on black

On black14.82:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -84

Black text on Light Green (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Light Green appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#F2DE89
  • Deuteranopia#E4D596
  • Tritanopia#85E9D7
  • Protanomaly#DDE28D
  • Deuteranomaly#D5DC94
  • Tritanomaly#89ECB5
  • Achromatopsia#D9D9D9

Colors similar to Light Green

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Light Green in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.light-green {
  color: lightgreen; /* #90EE90 */
  background-color: rgb(144 238 144);
  border-color: oklch(86.8% 0.156 144.1);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-light-green-500, text-light-green-700... */
@theme {
  --color-light-green-50: #F0FFF0;
  --color-light-green-100: #C9FAC8;
  --color-light-green-200: #90EE90;
  --color-light-green-300: #00E032;
  --color-light-green-400: #00B627;
  --color-light-green-500: #009D20;
  --color-light-green-600: #00871A;
  --color-light-green-700: #006D13;
  --color-light-green-800: #00580D;
  --color-light-green-900: #004809;
  --color-light-green-950: #001D01;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#90EE90] text-[#000000]">…</div>