Pale Green color (#98FB98)
Pale Green is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword palegreen
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #98FB98, which is rgb(152, 251, 152) in RGB.
It is a very light, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 120° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 90% in OKLCH. On a pale green background, black text gives the higher contrast at 16.58:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Pale Green color codes
| CSS name | palegreen |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #98FB98 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #98FB98FF |
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| RGB | rgb(152, 251, 152) |
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| HSL | hsl(120, 93%, 79%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(120, 39%, 98%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(90.4% 0.1624 144.1) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(39.4%, 0%, 39.4%, 1.6%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for pale green used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of pale green
Tints mix pale 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 pale green
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Pale Green with color blindness
Approximately how pale green appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using pale green in CSS
.element {
color: palegreen;
background-color: #98fb98;
border-color: rgb(152 251 152 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(90.4% 0.1624 144.1);
}Similar named colors
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