Extra Life #6AB417

Extra Life (#6AB417) is a light, saturated green with an OKLCH hue of 133°, lightness 0.69 and chroma 0.19. It sits on the transitional side of the color wheel. In practice it behaves as an accent color: strong in focal moments, dominant over large fields.

Color values

HEX#6AB417
RGBrgb(106, 180, 23)
HSLhsl(88, 77%, 40%)
HSVhsv(88, 87%, 71%)
CMYKcmyk(41%, 0%, 87%, 29%)
CIE Lablab(66.3 -46 63.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.695 0.190 133)

How Extra Life behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Extra Life shifts subtly: drifts toward yellow-green; in north-facing or shaded light it is virtually unchanged. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 1.6), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Test Extra Life in the color lighting simulator — sweep it through daylight, warm 2700K light, 4000K LED, and shade alongside the rest of your palette.

Contrast & accessibility

Against white it measures 2.58:1 and against black 8.15:1, so black text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text. Avoid white text on this color entirely.

Colors that go with Extra Life

Tonal

One color explored: close hues with real lightness and chroma structure, so the palette is the anchor through value rather than a set of colors.

#dbffc4 · #9de069 · #6ab417 · #519000 · #396800 · #224200

Analogous

The anchor's neighbours on the wheel — everything shares an undertone, so the chord carries color without anything having to be muted to get along.

#4ae0ab · #51cc71 · #6ab417 · #859500 · #887a00 · #836100

Shifted

The mid-gap pairing — sage and mustard, terracotta and olive. A foil rotated 40–65° toward warm or cool: too far to be kin, too near to argue, carried by temperature and a deliberate value offset.

#6ed0c4 · #6ab417 · #559213 · #007168 · #2c5200 · #003530

Contrast

One deliberately opposed voice — a single restrained counterpoint across the wheel, or temperature against temperature where the anchor is too muted to carry a loud opposite.

#c7f2ab · #b1c8a2 · #6ab417 · #a250c9 · #46672c · #304620

Quiet Support

The anchor as the only color in the room. True neutrals or complement-warmed near-neutrals let it stay dominant.

#f8edff · #6ab417 · #798770 · #524b56 · #17240c · #020004

Bright Accent

This color as a ground rather than a subject — its own restraint held across a narrow value band, carrying one saturated voice from the opposite temperature.

#f6effa · #cdc5d2 · #a198a6 · #281e2e · #07010b · #6ab417

Complementary

The opposite hue on the perceptual wheel, tempered to field strength — warm/cool tension without vibration.

#d6d5af · #6ab417 · #679076 · #ba2276 · #342c4c · #1f0505

Split-complementary

The complement's two neighbours instead of the complement itself — strong contrast with a lower clash risk.

#f4cdbd · #6ab417 · #8381ae · #9f4d8a · #322f47 · #110e04

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel; the anchor leads and the other two are held at supporting strength.

#e9f3ff · #6ab417 · #3483d9 · #940032 · #430011 · #000519

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs offset by 90° — the richest chord, kept usable by a strict lightness hierarchy.

#e0f6ff · #6ab417 · #008fb3 · #711895 · #3b0f00 · #05000c

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#7FC148 · #94CD69 · #A9D986 · #BDE5A2 · #D2F2BE

Shades

#549400 · #417500 · #2F5700 · #1E3B00 · #0E2200

Muted

#76B047 · #82AB64 · #8CA67A

Using Extra Life

Its chroma is high enough to carry accents, calls to action, and focal moments; large fields of it will dominate a composition. In palettes it pairs most predictably with its tonal ramp and analogous neighbors; reserve the complementary hue for small, deliberate contrast.

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