Peridot Color Codes

Peridot is a light, vivid yellow with the hex code #E6E200, RGB values of 230, 226, 0 and an HSL value of hsl(59, 100%, 45%).

HEX	#E6E200
RGB	230, 226, 0
HSL	hsl(59, 100%, 45%)
HSV	59°, 100%, 90%
CMYK	0%, 2%, 100%, 10%
LAB	87.59, -17.99, 86.61
CIELCHuv	87.59, 96.44, 84.24°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 396 C ΔE 2.9 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: yellow ΔE 12.9

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Peridot Color Hex Code

The Peridot color hex code is #E6E200. Those six digits are three pairs, E6 for red, E2 for green and 00 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#E6E200

Peridot Color RGB Code

The Peridot RGB code is rgb(230, 226, 0). Red carries the most light at 230 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(230, 226, 0)

Peridot Color HSV Code

The Peridot HSV code is 59°, 100%, 90%. Read it as a hue of 59 degrees, 100% saturation and 90% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

59°, 100%, 90%

Peridot Color CIELChuv Code

The Peridot CIELCHuv code is 87.59, 96.44, 84.24°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 88 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 96 is how far it sits from grey.

87.59, 96.44, 84.24°

Tonal scale

What are Peridot Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Peridot Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #E6E200. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #0004E6, a dark, vivid blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

#E66F00 and #77E600 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#00E6E2 and #E200E6 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #0077E6 and #6F00E6. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #0004E6, and #00E66F with #E60077. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.38:1

1.38

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

15.24:1

15.24

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.38:1 against white, Peridot is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 15.24:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Peridot against another color →

Color vision

How Peridot looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#E4E477

Peridot changes substantially here. ΔE 34.0

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#E5E583

Peridot changes substantially here. ΔE 39.3

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#E69BA2

Peridot changes substantially here. ΔE 93.1

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#DCDCDC

Peridot changes substantially here. ΔE 88.5

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Peridot reads as #E5E583. That is a shift of ΔE 39.3, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 93.1. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Peridot in code

:root {
  --peridot: #E6E200;
}

.example {
  color: var(--peridot);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'peridot': '#E6E200',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let peridot = Color(
    red: 0.902,
    green: 0.886,
    blue: 0.000
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="peridot">#E6E200</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const peridot = Color(0xFFE6E200);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Peridot Color?

Peridot reads as calm and the outdoors. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 88 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Peridot Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Yellow (#FFFF00), though it is not a match: Delta-E 12.9 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 396 C at #E0E20C. The name Peridot comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Peridot Color Made?

On a screen Peridot is made by additive light: 230 red, 226 green and 0 blue out of 255, with red leading and 0 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 2%, 100%, 10%. Starting from the pure hue at 59 degrees, Peridot is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.