Lime Green color (#32CD32)
Lime Green is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword limegreen
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #32CD32, which is rgb(50, 205, 50) in RGB.
It is a light, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 120° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 74% in OKLCH. On a lime green background, black text gives the higher contrast at 9.91:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Lime Green color codes
| CSS name | limegreen |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #32CD32 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #32CD32FF |
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| RGB | rgb(50, 205, 50) |
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| HSL | hsl(120, 61%, 50%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(120, 76%, 80%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(74.2% 0.2286 142.8) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(75.6%, 0%, 75.6%, 19.6%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for lime green used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of lime green
Tints mix lime green with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with lime green
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Lime Green with color blindness
Approximately how lime green appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using lime green in CSS
.element {
color: limegreen;
background-color: #32cd32;
border-color: rgb(50 205 50 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(74.2% 0.2286 142.8);
}Similar named colors
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