Yellow green

#85bb4e

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

This is Yellow green, a soft green at 90 degrees. A mid green this grounded suits sustainability and outdoor brands. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Yellow green color values

Every conversion for #85bb4e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#85bb4e

RGB133, 187, 78

HSL90, 44%, 52%

HSV90, 58%, 73%

CMYK29%, 0%, 58%, 27%

Lab70.23, -35.78, 48.65

XYZ28.82, 41.08, 13.62

Decimal8764238

Web safe#99cc66

Pantone376 C

Shades of yellow green

#79af43 #6e9e3d #628d36 #567c30 #4a6b29 #3e5a23 #33491c #273816 #1b270f #0f1608

Tints of yellow green

#90c15e #9cc86f #a7ce7f #b2d490 #bedba0 #c9e1b0 #d4e7c1 #dfedd1 #ebf4e2 #f6faf2

Colors that go with yellow green

Complementary#844ebb Analogous#bbbb4e Analogous#4ebb4e Triadic#4e85bb Triadic#bb4e85 Split complementary#4e4ebb Split complementary#bb4ebb

Yellow green in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 29, 0, 58, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #85bb4e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

29 0 58 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

31 4 57 33

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Yellow green in css

Copy #85bb4e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #85bb4e; }
.text { color: #85bb4e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #85bb4e; }

How yellow green looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Yellow green and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #85bb4e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #85bb4e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Yellow green on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #85bb4e sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around yellow green? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn yellow green into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #85bb4e 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 yellow green, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #85bb4e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.