HEX Color #BDE96D (Yellowgreen)

About #BDE96D

At its core, #BDE96D is a light and vivid hue. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Yellowgreen. In the RGB color space, it consists of 189 red, 233 green, and 109 blue.

When sending designs containing this color to a printer, the CMYK values come into play. This specific hue requires a mix of 19% C, 0% M, 53% Y, and 9% K. The HSL representation is 81.3° hue, 73.8% saturation, and 67.1% 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. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#BDE96D

RGB189, 233, 109

HSL81.3°, 73.8%, 67.1%

CMYK19%, 0%, 53%, 9%

HSV81.3°, 53.2%, 91.4%

LAB87.1, -33.1, 54.9

XYZ52.9, 70.2, 25.2

Decimal12446061

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#BDE96D #986CE8

Analogous

#E8D66C #7EE86C

Triadic

#6CBCE8 #E86CBC

Tetradic

#6CE8D6 #986CE8 #E86C7F

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#BDE96D

#C4EB7D

#CBED8D

#D3F09D

#DAF2AD

#E1F5BE

#E9F7CE

#F0FADE

#F7FCEE

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#BDE96D

#A8CF60

#93B554

#7E9B48

#69813C

#546730

#3F4D24

#2A3318

#15190C

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

1.40:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

15.04:1

Text on #000000

AAA

1.33:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

12.79:1

Text on #0F172A

AAA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #BDE96D; }

.text-color { color: #BDE96D; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #BDE96D; }

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