Lime

Hex #00FF00, rgb(0 255 0). A green CSS named color.

Lime#00FF00

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About Lime

Lime is a light vivid green with the hex code #00FF00. In RGB it is made of 0 red, 255 green and 0 blue; in HSL its hue is 120°, with 100% saturation and 50% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 86.6%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lime" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.37:1 and against black 15.30:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Lime 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 Lime

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

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Lime textSmall text on white

On white1.37:1

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

APCA Lc 17

Lime textSmall text on black

On black15.30:1

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

APCA Lc -86

Black text on Lime (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#FFE500
Deuteranopia#EFD63A
Tritanopia#00F7D9
Protanomaly#E3EB00
Deuteranomaly#D6E131
Tritanomaly#00FC99
Achromatopsia#DCDCDC

Colors similar to Lime

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Lime in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.lime {
  color: lime; /* #00FF00 */
  background-color: rgb(0 255 0);
  border-color: oklch(86.6% 0.295 142.5);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-lime-500, text-lime-700... */
@theme {
  --color-lime-50: #F1FFEF;
  --color-lime-100: #BBFFB5;
  --color-lime-200: #00FF00;
  --color-lime-300: #00E000;
  --color-lime-400: #00B700;
  --color-lime-500: #009D00;
  --color-lime-600: #008700;
  --color-lime-700: #006D00;
  --color-lime-800: #005800;
  --color-lime-900: #004800;
  --color-lime-950: #001D00;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#00FF00] text-[#000000]">…</div>