Information about #B5C305 color

#B5C305 color image

Basic facts about this digital color

#B5C305 falls into the Yellow Color Family — Full Saturation, Neutral brightness. Its exact recipe is rgb(181, 195, 5) — 71% red, 76.5% green, 2% blue — and for print it converts to CMYK 5 / 0 / 75 / 24. New to color codes? See our guide to RGB color codes.

The color #B5C305 reads as a pure, full-strength sunny yellow and occupies the middle of the lightness scale. Designers typically reach for tones like this for logos, highlights and anything that needs to be noticed first. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Bile (#B5C306). Slightly further away sit Baby Puke Green (#B6C406) and La Rioja (#BAC00E).

The recipe behind #B5C305 is rgb(181, 195, 5), with green as the dominant ingredient. On this background, black text reaches a 10.8:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.9:1. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #B5C305 is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.

#B5C305 color variations

View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.

#B5C305 color harmonies

Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.

Complementary

Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.

Complementary color schemes

Split complementary

Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.

Split complementary color scheme

Analogous

Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.

Analogous color scheme

Triadic

Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.

Triadic color scheme

Tetradic

Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.

Tetradic color scheme

Square

Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.

Square color scheme

Nearest named colors to #B5C305

The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.

Bile color link
Bile

#B5C306

La Rioja color link
La Rioja

#BAC00E

Snot color link
Snot

#ACBB0D

Puke Yellow color link
Puke Yellow

#C2BE0E

Olive Yellow color link
Olive Yellow

#C2B709

Vomit Yellow color link
Vomit Yellow

#C7C10C

Rio Grande color link
Rio Grande

#B7C61A

Acid Green color link
Acid Green

#B0BF1A

Limerick color link
Limerick

#9DC209

Snot Green color link
Snot Green

#9DC100

Conversions between color systems and etc.

  • HEX#B5C305
  • RGB181, 195, 5
  • CMYK5, 0, 75, 24
  • CSSrgb(181, 195, 5)
  • HSL64°, 95%, 39%
  • HSL Precise64.421°, 95%, 39.216%
  • HSV64°, 97%, 76%
  • HSB64°, 97%, 76%
  • Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.710
  • Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.765
  • Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.020
  • GLSLvec3(0.710, 0.765, 0.020)
  • GLSL with alphavec4(0.710, 0.765, 0.020, 1.000)
  • HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.710, 0.765, 0.020)
  • Percentage of Red in RGB71%
  • Percentage of Green in RGB76.5%
  • Percentage of Blue in RGB2%
  • Color FamilyYellow
  • Saturation FamilyFull Saturation
  • Lightness FamilyNeutral
  • HEX IDB5C305
  • DECIMAL ID11911941
  • Name LengthThis color has no name
  • Seen by search & AI crawlers10 times
  • Counting from2025-01-01