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Pale Yellow
#E6F8AA

Pale Yellow (#E6F8AA) with RGB(230, 248, 170) and HSL(74, 85%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

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Active theme: Pale Yellow

Values

Production-ready color values

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HEX

#E6F8AA

RGB

rgb(230, 248, 170)

HSL

hsl(74, 85%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(74, 31%, 97%)

CMYK

cmyk(7%, 0%, 31%, 3%)

Decimal

15136938

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

1.14:1

On black

18.37:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#1E2603 #384706 #5D760A #82A50D #A7D411 #C0EE2B #CEF25A #D9F580 #E6F8AA #F2FCD5

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

1.14:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

18.37:1

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

#E6F8AA #BCAAF8

Triadic

Open palette

#E6F8AA #AAE6F8 #F8AAE6

Analogous

Open palette

#F8E3AA #F8F7AA #E6F8AA #D2F8AA #BFF8AA

Split complementary

Open palette

#E6F8AA #AABFF8 #E3AAF8

Tetradic

Open palette

#E6F8AA #AAF8E3 #BCAAF8 #F8AABF

Monochromatic

Open palette

#4A5E08 #82A50D #B9EC13 #CEF25A #E3F7A1

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Pale Yellow (#E6F8AA) with RGB(230, 248, 170) and HSL(74, 85%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

limepastelneutralhex-e6f8aah-74s-85l-82

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Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Pale Yellow */
color: #E6F8AA;
background-color: #E6F8AA;
border-color: #E6F8AA;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #e6f8aa40;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#E6F8AA] text-[#E6F8AA] border-[#E6F8AA] ring-[#E6F8AA]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.902, green: 0.973, blue: 0.667)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFE6F8AA)

Android XML

<color name="pale_yellow">#E6F8AA</color>

React Native

{ color: '#E6F8AA' }

Social Media

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About

About Pale Yellow

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

Meaning

Pale Yellow sits in the lime family with a pastel tone, so it opens softer surface systems. It reads as balanced, restrained, and dependable.

Applications

Pale Yellow (#E6F8AA) with RGB(230, 248, 170) and HSL(74, 85%, 82%). 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

Pastel

Temperature

neutral

Keywords

lime, pastel, neutral, hex-e6f8aa, h-74, s-85

Conversion

Color conversions

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

HEX

#E6F8AA

RGB

rgb(230, 248, 170)

HSL

hsl(74, 85%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(74, 31%, 97%)

CMYK

cmyk(7%, 0%, 31%, 3%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

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

#1E2603 #384706 #5D760A #82A50D #A7D411 #C0EE2B #CEF25A #D9F580 #E6F8AA #F2FCD5

900

#1E2603

800

#384706

700

#5D760A

600

#82A50D

500

#A7D411

400

#C0EE2B

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

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

Complementary

Open palette

#E6F8AA #BCAAF8

Triadic

Open palette

#E6F8AA #AAE6F8 #F8AAE6

Analogous

Open palette

#F8E3AA #F8F7AA #E6F8AA #D2F8AA #BFF8AA

Split complementary

Open palette

#E6F8AA #AABFF8 #E3AAF8

Tetradic

Open palette

#E6F8AA #AAF8E3 #BCAAF8 #F8AABF

Monochromatic

Open palette

#4A5E08 #82A50D #B9EC13 #CEF25A #E3F7A1

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia

#EEEEBD

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

Deuteranopia

#EDEBC1

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

Tritanopia

#E7CCCF

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

1.14:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

18.37:1

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

Pale Yellow

Closest standard CSS name to #E6F8AA for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-lime-pastel

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 #E6F8AA as the core value.

HSL token

74 85% 82%

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.

Pale Yellow#E6F8AA

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

Pale Yellow

Nearby named colors

Closest real-world color

About Pale 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

Pale Yellow
#E6F8AA