HEX Color #C5E92C (Yellowgreen)

About #C5E92C

The precise color #C5E92C is an excellent choice for modern design projects. Designers often compare it to the standard color Yellowgreen. In the RGB color space, it consists of 197 red, 233 green, and 44 blue.

If you are designing for print, the four-color process is what matters most. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 15% cyan and 0% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 71.4° hue, 81.1% saturation, and 54.3% lightness.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. The calculated luminance score dictates that #000000 typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#C5E92C

RGB197, 233, 44

HSL71.4°, 81.1%, 54.3%

CMYK15%, 0%, 81%, 9%

HSV71.4°, 81.1%, 91.4%

LAB87.2, -34.1, 78.9

XYZ52.6, 70.3, 13.2

Decimal12970284

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#C5E92C #4F2BE9

Analogous

#E9AE2B #66E92B

Triadic

#2BC4E9 #E92BC4

Tetradic

#2BE9AE #4F2BE9 #E92B66

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#C5E92C

#CBEB43

#D1ED5A

#D8F072

#DEF289

#E5F5A1

#EBF7B8

#F2FAD0

#F8FCE7

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#C5E92C

#AFCF27

#99B522

#839B1D

#6D8118

#576713

#414D0E

#2B3309

#151904

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

1.39:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

15.07:1

Text on #000000

AAA

1.33:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

12.81:1

Text on #0F172A

AAA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #C5E92C; }

.text-color { color: #C5E92C; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #C5E92C; }

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