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Lime Green

Hex #32CD32, rgb(50 205 50). A green CSS named color.

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About Lime Green

Lime Green is a light vivid green with the hex code #32CD32. In RGB it is made of 50 red, 205 green and 50 blue; in HSL its hue is 120°, with 61% saturation and 50% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 74.2%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "limegreen" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.12:1 and against black 9.91:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Lime 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 Lime Green

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 Green with white and black. The readable text color on Lime Green is black.

Lime Green textSmall text on white

On white2.12:1

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

APCA Lc 41

Lime Green textSmall text on black

On black9.91:1

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

APCA Lc -61

Black text on Lime Green (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#D1B90D
  • Deuteranopia#C0AE43
  • Tritanopia#00C7B0
  • Protanomaly#B8BE26
  • Deuteranomaly#AEB63F
  • Tritanomaly#0FCB80
  • Achromatopsia#B2B2B2

Colors similar to Lime Green

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Lime Green in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.lime-green {
  color: limegreen; /* #32CD32 */
  background-color: rgb(50 205 50);
  border-color: oklch(74.2% 0.229 142.8);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-lime-green-500, text-lime-green-700... */
@theme {
  --color-lime-green-50: #F3FEF2;
  --color-lime-green-100: #DFF8DD;
  --color-lime-green-200: #C2EFBE;
  --color-lime-green-300: #8DE288;
  --color-lime-green-400: #32CD32;
  --color-lime-green-500: #00B10D;
  --color-lime-green-600: #009709;
  --color-lime-green-700: #007906;
  --color-lime-green-800: #006103;
  --color-lime-green-900: #004E02;
  --color-lime-green-950: #001D00;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#32CD32] text-[#000000]">…</div>