Light green

#b6ca9d

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for light green, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Light green sits in the green range, light and soft. Light greens like this signal fresh, natural and wellness. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Light green color values

Every conversion for #b6ca9d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b6ca9d

RGB182, 202, 157

HSL87, 30%, 70%

HSV87, 22%, 79%

CMYK10%, 0%, 22%, 21%

Lab78.82, -14.74, 20.26

XYZ46.5, 54.62, 39.99

Decimal11979421

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone577 C

Shades of light green

#a6be88 #96b372 #86a75d #769450 #657e44 #546939 #43542d #323e22 #212916 #10140b

Tints of light green

#bccfa6 #c3d3ae #c9d8b7 #d0ddc0 #d6e1c8 #dde6d1 #e3ebd9 #e9efe2 #f0f4eb #f6f9f3

Colors that go with light green

Complementary#b19dca Analogous#cac79d Analogous#a0ca9d Triadic#9db6ca Triadic#ca9db6 Split complementary#9da0ca Split complementary#c79dca

Light green in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 10, 0, 22, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b6ca9d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 0 22 21

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 4 24 27

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Light green in css

Copy #b6ca9d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b6ca9d; }
.text { color: #b6ca9d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b6ca9d; }

How light green looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light green and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #b6ca9d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b6ca9d against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light green on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #b6ca9d sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light green? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light green into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #b6ca9d and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from light green, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #b6ca9d are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.