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Pale Green

Hex #98FB98, rgb(152 251 152). A green CSS named color.

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About Pale Green

Pale Green is a very light saturated green with the hex code #98FB98. In RGB it is made of 152 red, 251 green and 152 blue; in HSL its hue is 120°, with 93% saturation and 79% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 90.4%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "palegreen" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.27:1 and against black 16.59:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Pale 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 Pale 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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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Pale Green textSmall text on white

On white1.27:1

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

APCA Lc 13

Pale Green textSmall text on black

On black16.59:1

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

APCA Lc -91

Black text on Pale Green (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#FFEA91
  • Deuteranopia#F0E19E
  • Tritanopia#8CF6E2
  • Protanomaly#E9EE95
  • Deuteranomaly#E1E89C
  • Tritanomaly#91F9BF
  • Achromatopsia#E4E4E4

Colors similar to Pale Green

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Pale Green in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.pale-green {
  color: palegreen; /* #98FB98 */
  background-color: rgb(152 251 152);
  border-color: oklch(90.4% 0.162 144.1);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-pale-green-500, text-pale-green-700... */
@theme {
  --color-pale-green-50: #F0FFF0;
  --color-pale-green-100: #CDFFCB;
  --color-pale-green-200: #98FB98;
  --color-pale-green-300: #00EB35;
  --color-pale-green-400: #00C029;
  --color-pale-green-500: #00A422;
  --color-pale-green-600: #008D1C;
  --color-pale-green-700: #007114;
  --color-pale-green-800: #005B0E;
  --color-pale-green-900: #004A09;
  --color-pale-green-950: #001D01;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#98FB98] text-[#000000]">…</div>