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Yellow
#A9D214

Yellow (#A9D214) with RGB(169, 210, 20) and HSL(73, 83%, 45%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

LimeCorecool

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Interactive

UI Sandbox

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Active theme: Yellow

Values

Production-ready color values

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HEX

#A9D214

RGB

rgb(169, 210, 20)

HSL

hsl(73, 83%, 45%)

HSV

hsv(73, 90%, 82%)

CMYK

cmyk(20%, 0%, 90%, 18%)

Decimal

11129364

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

1.76:1

On black

11.92:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#1E2503 #384607 #5E750B #83A30F #A9D214 #C2EB2D #D0F05C #DBF381 #E7F7AB #F3FBD5

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

1.76:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

11.92:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#A9D214 #3D14D2

Triadic

Open palette

#A9D214 #14A9D2 #D214A9

Analogous

Open palette

#D29C14 #D2CC14 #A9D214 #79D214 #49D214

Split complementary

Open palette

#A9D214 #1449D2 #9C14D2

Tetradic

Open palette

#A9D214 #14D29C #3D14D2 #D21449

Monochromatic

Open palette

#4B5D09 #83A30F #BBE916 #D0F05C #E4F6A2

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Yellow (#A9D214) with RGB(169, 210, 20) and HSL(73, 83%, 45%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

limecoreneutralhex-a9d214h-73s-83l-45

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Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Yellow */
color: #A9D214;
background-color: #A9D214;
border-color: #A9D214;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #a9d21440;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#A9D214] text-[#A9D214] border-[#A9D214] ring-[#A9D214]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.663, green: 0.824, blue: 0.078)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFA9D214)

Android XML

<color name="yellow">#A9D214</color>

React Native

{ color: '#A9D214' }

Social Media

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About

About Yellow

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Yellow sits in the lime family with a core tone, so it holds enough weight for primary UI accents. It reads as balanced, restrained, and dependable.

Applications

Yellow (#A9D214) with RGB(169, 210, 20) and HSL(73, 83%, 45%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Lime

Tone

Core

Temperature

neutral

Keywords

lime, core, neutral, hex-a9d214, h-73, s-83

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#A9D214

RGB

rgb(169, 210, 20)

HSL

hsl(73, 83%, 45%)

HSV

hsv(73, 90%, 82%)

CMYK

cmyk(20%, 0%, 90%, 18%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#1E2503 #384607 #5E750B #83A30F #A9D214 #C2EB2D #D0F05C #DBF381 #E7F7AB #F3FBD5

900

#1E2503

800

#384607

700

#5E750B

600

#83A30F

500

#A9D214

400

#C2EB2D

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#A9D214 #3D14D2

Triadic

Open palette

#A9D214 #14A9D2 #D214A9

Analogous

Open palette

#D29C14 #D2CC14 #A9D214 #79D214 #49D214

Split complementary

Open palette

#A9D214 #1449D2 #9C14D2

Tetradic

Open palette

#A9D214 #14D29C #3D14D2 #D21449

Monochromatic

Open palette

#4B5D09 #83A30F #BBE916 #D0F05C #E4F6A2

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#BBBB42

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#B8B54D

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#AB666E

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

1.76:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

11.92:1

AAA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Yellow

Closest standard CSS name to #A9D214 for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-lime-core

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

lime-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #A9D214 as the core value.

HSL token

73 83% 45%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

Yellow#A9D214

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

Design expert profile

Language

Copy for any framework

Share this color

Yellow

Nearby named colors

About Yellow

Color conversions

Shades and tonal variations

Harmony-based palette routes

Color blindness preview

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Nearby color references

Library-ready mappings

Palette ideas related to this color

Yellow
#A9D214