HEX Color #49FF42 (Lime)

About #49FF42

The precise color #49FF42 is an excellent choice for modern design projects. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Lime. Its digital footprint relies on 73 parts red, 255 parts green, and 66 parts blue light.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 71% cyan and 0% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 117.8 degrees, it sits comfortably in the green spectrum.

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. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#49FF42

RGB73, 255, 66

HSL117.8°, 100.0%, 62.9%

CMYK71%, 0%, 74%, 0%

HSV117.8°, 74.1%, 100.0%

LAB88.6, -77.8, 72.2

XYZ39.5, 73.3, 17.2

Decimal4849474

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#49FF42 #F841FF

Analogous

#A7FF41 #41FF99

Triadic

#4149FF #FF4148

Tetradic

#41A7FF #F841FF #FF9941

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#49FF42

#5DFF57

#71FF6C

#85FF81

#99FF96

#AEFFAB

#C2FFC0

#D6FFD5

#EAFFEA

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#49FF42

#40E23A

#38C633

#30AA2C

#288D24

#20711D

#185516

#10380E

#081C07

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

1.34:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

15.67:1

Text on #000000

AAA

1.28:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

13.32:1

Text on #0F172A

AAA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #49FF42; }

.text-color { color: #49FF42; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #49FF42; }

Similar Colors

Lime

#00FF00