#CAE3A0 a light lime

At a glance#CAE3A0, oklch(88.1% 0.092 124.9), is a light lime, close to Field Day #C5E6A4. Its hue sits mid-wheel, neither warm nor cool. Partner it with a cool bold blue #3F59A4 as an accent, a warm light bronze #C7A97E for harmony, and a brilliant lime #C6F171 the same color turned up. Put it to work as a tinted neutral, and it takes black text at AA contrast. A coated press has to move it a little, by less than a print run varies anyway.
Color codes

#CAE3A0 in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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:root { /* how your code speaks it */ /* how your eyes measure it */ /* how the lab measures it, D65 2° */}/* tailwind v4 */

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Color family

What kind of green is #CAE3A0?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #CAE3A0's, measured rather than asserted.

#CAE3A0's Munsell numbers: hue 6.3GY, value 8.7 (how light), chroma 4.7 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block light yellow green, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 4.7 is low. This is a grayed, muted green, nearer neutral than vivid, which is why it reads as a surface rather than an accent.

There’s still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody’s own renotation inversion.

Tints & shades

Shades of #CAE3A0, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #CAE3A0. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, lime-300.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

Rhapsody Palette

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Accessibility

Is #CAE3A0 accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #CAE3A0 clears WCAG AAA. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows show text colors, columns show backgrounds. 68 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Rhapsody Palette

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Print

#CAE3A0 in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Presses move this color a little, by less than a print run varies anyway, so a printer would call it a match. The pairs below show where each standard lands.

In CMYK, #CAE3A0 is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

CGATS21 CRPC1 (coldset news) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 1.3, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 1.2, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 1.2, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.8, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

Coated FOGRA39 within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 1.5, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

Japan Color 2011 Coated within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.7, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

APTEC Flexo Coated within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 1.9, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.5, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get, near enough that a press run’s own variation is the larger difference.

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The strip shows this page’s tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.

The Limes

Colors similar to #CAE3A0

This color sits in The Limes, close to the border with The Lemons. Explore The Limes

The row runs warmer on the left, cooler on the right.

The wheel’s warm pole sits near Pumpkin, its cool pole near Goluboy.

Named colors near this one: Field Day #C5E6A4 (via color-name-list) · Shadow Lime #CCDE95 (via color-name-list) · Pear Perfume #CCDD99 (via color-name-list) · Cactus Spike #C1E0A3 (via color-name-list) · Pastel Pea #BEE7A5 (via color-name-list)

Pairings

Colors that go with #CAE3A0

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a brilliant violet #8067B4. Rhapsody’s pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the vivid is the same color with the volume up, for when it has to shout.

Downloads

Take #CAE3A0 with you

The work on this page doesn’t stay here. Save a card and the color arrives in your file, your deck or your board already decided.

#CAE3A0 color codes: hex #CAE3A0, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of #CAE3A0, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
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#CAE3A0 paired with a cool bold blue #3F59A4, a warm light bronze #C7A97E, a brilliant lime #C6F171: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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