HEX Color #42BD00 (Limegreen)

About #42BD00

Visually, #42BD00 is defined as a vivid green. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Limegreen. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 66, 189, and 0.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 65% cyan and 0% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 99.0° hue, 100.0% saturation, and 37.1% lightness.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Mathematical luminance calculations suggest that #000000 text provides the most optimal reading experience. You can view the detailed AAA and AA pass/fail metrics in the table below.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#42BD00

RGB66, 189, 0

HSL99.0°, 100.0%, 37.1%

CMYK65%, 0%, 100%, 26%

HSV99.0°, 100.0%, 74.1%

LAB67.7, -61.2, 67.5

XYZ20.4, 37.6, 6.2

Decimal4373760

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#42BD00 #7A00BD

Analogous

#A0BD00 #00BD1C

Triadic

#0041BD #BD0042

Tetradic

#00A0BD #7A00BD #BD1C00

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#42BD00

#57C41C

#6CCB38

#81D355

#96DA71

#ABE18D

#C0E9AA

#D5F0C6

#EAF7E2

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#42BD00

#3AA800

#339300

#2C7E00

#246900

#1D5400

#163F00

#0E2A00

#071500

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

2.47:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

8.51:1

Text on #000000

AAA

2.36:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

7.24:1

Text on #0F172A

AAA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #42BD00; }

.text-color { color: #42BD00; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #42BD00; }

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