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#c2e608

a balanced, electric yellow · warm · closest name: Green Yellow

Token name suggestion: True Honey

RGB
194, 230, 8
HSL
70°, 93%, 47%
CMYK
16, 0, 97, 10
Luminance
0.6808

#c2e608 is a balanced electric yellow, 70° on the wheel and 33/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.62:1). As text it scores 1.44:1 on white — use #6B7F04 instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(70 93% 47%)rgb(194 230 8)Base step 600AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c2e608 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c2e608
Hue
70°
yellow
Saturation
93%
electric
Lightness
47%
balanced
Brightness
90%
HSV value
Perceived
81%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6808
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
33/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
14.62:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 7.8
Chroma
90.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.868
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 10.3
Web-safe
#CCFF00
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue70° of 360°
Saturation93%
Lightness47%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c2e608.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool33% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red17%
Green83%
Blue0%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#c2e608
HEX (8-digit)#c2e608ff
RGBrgb(194, 230, 8)
RGBArgba(194, 230, 8, 1)
HSLhsl(70, 93%, 47%)
HSV / HSBhsv(70, 97%, 90%)
HWBhwb(70 3% 10%)
CMYKcmyk(16%, 0%, 97%, 10%)
LABlab(86.0 -34.6 83.6)
LCHlch(86.0 90.5 112.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.868 0.206 120.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(50.59, 68.08, 10.71)
Decimal12772872
Display P3color(display-p3 0.761 0.902 0.031)
Web-safe#CCFF00

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c2e608;
background-color: #c2e608;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c2e608;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c2e608] bg-[#c2e608]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c2e608;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.761, green: 0.902, blue: 0.031)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.761, green: 0.902, blue: 0.031, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C2E608</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC2E608)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC2E608)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(8, 230, 194)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(194, 230, 8)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(194, 230, 8)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 194, 230, 8)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7608f, 0.9020f, 0.0314f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{194,230,8}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c2e608 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c2e608 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#687B04, #EAEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c2e608 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FBFDF2;
  --brand-100: #F7FBE4;
  --brand-200: #F1F9C2;
  --brand-300: #EAFB93;
  --brand-400: #E0F95C;
  --brand-500: #D6F726;
  --brand-600: #c2e608;
  --brand-700: #A6C507;
  --brand-800: #859E05;
  --brand-900: #617209;
  --brand-950: #3C4705;
  --brand: #c2e608;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E5EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #A5C407;
  --brand-pressed: #88A106;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #222414;
    --brand-ink: #EAEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBFDF2',
        100: '#F7FBE4',
        200: '#F1F9C2',
        300: '#EAFB93',
        400: '#E0F95C',
        500: '#D6F726',
        600: '#c2e608',
        700: '#A6C507',
        800: '#859E05',
        900: '#617209',
        950: '#3C4705',
        DEFAULT: '#c2e608',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBFDF2,
  '100': #F7FBE4,
  '200': #F1F9C2,
  '300': #EAFB93,
  '400': #E0F95C,
  '500': #D6F726,
  '600': #c2e608,
  '700': #A6C507,
  '800': #859E05,
  '900': #617209,
  '950': #3C4705,
);
$brand-base: #c2e608;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBFDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7FBE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F1F9C2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EAFB93", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E0F95C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D6F726", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#c2e608", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A6C507", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#859E05", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#617209", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3C4705", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #c2e608 · 14.62:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.44:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.62:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c2e608 as text scores 1.44:1 on white and 14.62:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #687B04 at 3.30:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#6B7F04 · 4.50:1
AA on white−21% L
#6B7F04
The quick fox
#4E5C03 · 7.35:1
AAA on white−28% L
#4E5C03
The quick fox
#c2e608 · 14.62:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c2e608
The quick fox
#c2e608 · 14.62:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c2e608

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #849C05 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#c2e608 on white: 1.44:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c2e608 on black: 14.62:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c2e608 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c2e608.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.44:1AaAa
Slate 501.37:1AaAa
Slate 1001.31:1AaAa
Slate 2001.17:1AaAa
Slate 3001.03:1AaAa
Slate 4001.78:1AaAa
Slate 5003.31:1AaAa
Slate 6005.27:1AaAa
Slate 7007.21:1AaAa
Slate 80010.18:1AaAa
Slate 90012.43:1AaAa
Black14.62:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F5D800
deuteranopia · #F1D830
tritanopia · #CED9C4

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #c2e608 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBFDF2
#F7FBE4
#F1F9C2
#EAFB93
#E0F95C
#D6F726
#c2e608
#A6C507
#859E05
#617209
#3C4705
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FBFDF2Darkest = 950 · #3C4705Text step on white = 900
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.051 120.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.082 120.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.124 120.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.161 120.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.190 120.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.206 120.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.206 120.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.194 120.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.173 120.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.144 120.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.113 120.5);
}

Colors that work with #c2e608

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F9FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E5EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8E9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0318EB
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#687B04
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAFEE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#222414
Dark-mode background
Hover#A5C407
One step down in lightness
Pressed#88A106
Two steps down
Disabled#BBC19E
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D6FF04
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #c2e608

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #687B04
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #849C05

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

optimisticalertcheap-and-cheerfulvisible

The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

Almost never passes contrast against white. Treat it as a surface or a marker, not as text.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight53/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#2C08E6
Analogous left#E69B08
Analogous right#53E608
Split-complement 1#0853E6
Split-complement 2#9B08E6
Triadic 1#08C2E6
Triadic 2#E608C2
Tetradic#08E69B
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°70°

#c2e608 sits at 70°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red76.1%
Green90.2%
Blue3.1%
R · 0–255
194
0xc2
G · 0–255
230
0xe6
B · 0–255
8
0x08

CMYK percentages

Cyan15.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow96.5%
Key (black)9.8%

Total ink coverage is 122%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#c2e608 text on a black background

contrast 14.62:1

Card sample

#c2e608 text on a white background

contrast 1.44:1

Card sample

#c2e608 on grey

1.31:1

#c2e608 on its own surface

1.37:1

#c2e608 on its dark surface

10.99:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c2e608;
Background color
Panel with #c2e608 background
background-color: #c2e608;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c2e608;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(194, 230, 8, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(194, 230, 8, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c2e608;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c2e608, #2EE608);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c2e608, #08E619);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c2e608;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c2e608;
caret-color: #c2e608;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c2e608;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAFEE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c2e608;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c2e608 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c2e608 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(194, 230, 8, 0.5)
rgb(194 230 8 / 50%)
#c2e60880
hsl(70 93% 47% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c2e608 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c2e6081a#F9FDE6
20%#c2e60833#F3FACE
40%#c2e60866#E7F59C
60%#c2e60899#DAF06B
80%#c2e608cc#CEEB39

Gradients from #c2e608

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #D8F833, #c2e608 45%, #687B04);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c2e608, #18C907);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c2e608, #2C08E6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DEF951 0%, #c2e608 45%, #687B04 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F8A12A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #4FF716 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #687B04 0%, transparent 65%), #c2e608;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c2e608

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#c2e608 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
RetailLeisureEnergyWarning systems
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 14.62:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#c2e608, answered

What color is #c2e608?

#c2e608 is a balanced electric yellow, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 7.8). It sits at 70° on the hue wheel with 93% saturation and 47% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #c2e608?

rgb(194, 230, 8) — 194 red, 230 green and 8 blue out of 255, or 76.1% / 90.2% / 3.1% by channel.

What is #c2e608 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(70, 93%, 47%) and hsv(70, 97%, 90%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c2e608 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6808 and perceived brightness is 81%, so black text on it reaches 14.62:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c2e608?

Black. It scores 14.62:1 against #c2e608, versus 1.44:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c2e608 accessible on a white background?

#c2e608 on white scores 1.44:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #6B7F04 to reach 4.5:1, or #4E5C03 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c2e608?

#2C08E6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #0853E6 and #9B08E6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c2e608?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E5EDC0 for borders, #8E9B4B for secondary text, #0318EB as an accent and #687B04 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E69B08 and #53E608 stays calm, while #2C08E6 is the loudest partner.

What is #c2e608 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(16%, 0%, 97%, 10%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #c2e608 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 33 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E6B908; nudged cooler, #71E906.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c2e608?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 10.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c2e608 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c2e608 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c2e608] or text-[#c2e608], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #c2e608 with 50% opacity?

rgba(194, 230, 8, 0.5), or #c2e60880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E1F384; over black, #617304.

Is #c2e608 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFF00, ΔE2000 5.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c2e608 mean?

As a yellow, it reads optimistic, alert, cheap-and-cheerful. The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #c2e608?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D8F833, #c2e608 45%, #687B04). For more colour, a short hue run to #18C907 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c2e608 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c2e608 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.