#C5E950
A light, vivid yellow closely aligning with Yellowgreen.
About #C5E950
Visually, #C5E950 is defined as a vivid yellow. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Yellowgreen. In the RGB color space, it consists of 197 red, 233 green, and 80 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 74.1° hue, 77.7% saturation, and 61.4% 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. You can view the detailed AAA and AA pass/fail metrics in the table below.
Color Space Conversions
HEX#C5E950
RGB197, 233, 80
HSL74.1°, 77.7%, 61.4%
CMYK15%, 0%, 66%, 9%
HSV74.1°, 65.7%, 91.4%
LAB87.4, -32.4, 67.6
XYZ53.6, 70.7, 18.4
Decimal12970320
Color Harmonies
Tints, Shades & Tones
Tints (Adding White)
Shades (Adding Black)
WCAG Contrast Accessibility
1.39:1
Text on #FFFFFF
FAIL
15.15:1
Text on #000000
AAA
1.33:1
Text on #F8FAFC
FAIL
12.88:1
Text on #0F172A
AAA
CSS Implementation
.bg-color {
background-color: #C5E950;
}
.text-color {
color: #C5E950;
}
.border-color {
border: 2px solid #C5E950;
}