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#025521

a deep, electric green · cool · closest name: Dark Green

Token name suggestion: Abyss Moss

RGB
2, 85, 33
HSL
142°, 95%, 17%
CMYK
98, 0, 61, 67
Luminance
0.0662

#025521 is a deep electric green, 142° on the wheel and 72/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (9.04:1). As text it scores 9.04:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Green, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(142 95% 17%)rgb(2 85 33)Base step 950AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #025521 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#025521
Hue
142°
green
Saturation
95%
electric
Lightness
17%
deep
Brightness
33%
HSV value
Perceived
26%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0662
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
72/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
9.04:1
Closest name
Dark Green
ΔE2000 8
Chroma
42.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.393
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 28.1
Web-safe
#006633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue142° of 360°
Saturation95%
Lightness17%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #025521.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool72% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red0%
Green98%
Blue2%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#025521
HEX (8-digit)#025521ff
RGBrgb(2, 85, 33)
RGBArgba(2, 85, 33, 1)
HSLhsl(142, 95%, 17%)
HSV / HSBhsv(142, 98%, 33%)
HWBhwb(142 1% 67%)
CMYKcmyk(98%, 0%, 61%, 67%)
LABlab(30.9 -35.2 23.8)
LCHlch(30.9 42.5 145.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.393 0.110 148.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(3.55, 6.62, 2.53)
Decimal152865
Display P3color(display-p3 0.008 0.333 0.129)
Web-safe#006633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #025521;
background-color: #025521;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #025521;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#025521] bg-[#025521]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #025521;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.008, green: 0.333, blue: 0.129)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.008, green: 0.333, blue: 0.129, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#025521</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF025521)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF025521)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(33, 85, 2)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(2, 85, 33)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(2, 85, 33)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 2, 85, 33)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0078f, 0.3333f, 0.1294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{2,85,33}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #025521 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #025521 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#037D30, #D3EEDD);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #025521 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F1FDF6;
  --brand-100: #E4FCED;
  --brand-200: #C2FAD7;
  --brand-300: #91FCB9;
  --brand-400: #5BFB97;
  --brand-500: #24FA74;
  --brand-600: #06EF5D;
  --brand-700: #05C74D;
  --brand-800: #049F3E;
  --brand-900: #077330;
  --brand-950: #025521;
  --brand: #025521;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD1;
  --brand-hover: #013214;
  --brand-pressed: #000F06;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241A;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDD;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDF6',
        100: '#E4FCED',
        200: '#C2FAD7',
        300: '#91FCB9',
        400: '#5BFB97',
        500: '#24FA74',
        600: '#06EF5D',
        700: '#05C74D',
        800: '#049F3E',
        900: '#077330',
        950: '#025521',
        DEFAULT: '#025521',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDF6,
  '100': #E4FCED,
  '200': #C2FAD7,
  '300': #91FCB9,
  '400': #5BFB97,
  '500': #24FA74,
  '600': #06EF5D,
  '700': #05C74D,
  '800': #049F3E,
  '900': #077330,
  '950': #025521,
);
$brand-base: #025521;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDF6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FCED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2FAD7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#91FCB9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5BFB97", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#24FA74", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#06EF5D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#05C74D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#049F3E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#077330", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#025521", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #025521 · 9.04:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 9.04:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.32:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #025521 as text scores 9.04:1 on white and 2.32:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E6FEEF at 8.51:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#025521 · 9.04:1
AA on whitealready passes
#025521
The quick fox
#025521 · 9.04:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#025521
The quick fox
#038734 · 4.52:1
AA on black+10% L
#038734
The quick fox
#04AF44 · 7.22:1
AAA on black+18% L
#04AF44

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #025521 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#025521 on white: 9.04:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#025521 on black: 2.32:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #025521 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #025521.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White9.04:1AaAa
Slate 508.64:1AaAa
Slate 1008.25:1AaAa
Slate 2007.33:1AaAa
Slate 3006.09:1AaAa
Slate 4003.52:1AaAa
Slate 5001.90:1AaAa
Slate 6001.19:1AaAa
Slate 7001.15:1AaAa
Slate 8001.62:1AaAa
Slate 9001.98:1AaAa
Black2.32:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #564C1C
deuteranopia · #4D4625
tritanopia · #005349

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #025521 is pinned to step 950; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FDF6
#E4FCED
#C2FAD7
#91FCB9
#5BFB97
#24FA74
#06EF5D
#05C74D
#049F3E
#077330
#025521
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #F1FDF6Darkest = 950 · #025521Text step on white = 900
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.028 148.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.044 148.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.066 148.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.086 148.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.101 148.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.110 148.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.110 148.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.103 148.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.092 148.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.077 148.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.061 148.9);
}

Colors that work with #025521

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F4FAF7
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDD1
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B69
Captions on the surface
Accent#57004C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#037D30
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FEEF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241A
Dark-mode background
Hover#013214
One step down in lightness
Pressed#000F06
Two steps down
Disabled#4E7A5E
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#006C28
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #025521

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Status meaning — pair it with an icon or label, never colour alone
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

safegrowingnaturalpermissive

Green means go, well, and grown. It carries finance, sustainability and health with almost no explanation needed.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight83/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#550236
Analogous left#0D5502
Analogous right#02554B
Split-complement 1#4B0255
Split-complement 2#55020D
Triadic 1#210255
Triadic 2#552102
Tetradic#020D55
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°142°

#025521 sits at 142°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red0.8%
Green33.3%
Blue12.9%
R · 0–255
2
0x02
G · 0–255
85
0x55
B · 0–255
33
0x21

CMYK percentages

Cyan97.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow61.2%
Key (black)66.7%

Total ink coverage is 226%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#025521 text on a black background

contrast 2.32:1

Card sample

#025521 text on a white background

contrast 9.04:1

Card sample

#025521 on grey

8.25:1

#025521 on its own surface

8.55:1

#025521 on its dark surface

1.79:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #025521;
Background color
Panel with #025521 background
background-color: #025521;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #025521;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(2, 85, 33, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(2, 85, 33, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #025521;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #025521, #025255);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #025521, #023D55);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #025521;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #025521;
caret-color: #025521;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #025521;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FEEF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #025521;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#025521 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #025521 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(2, 85, 33, 0.5)
rgb(2 85 33 / 50%)
#02552180
hsl(142 95% 17% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #025521 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0255211a#E6EEE9
20%#02552133#CCDDD3
40%#02552166#9ABBA6
60%#02552199#67997A
80%#025521cc#35774D

Gradients from #025521

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #039138, #025521 45%, #037D30);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #025521, #013137);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #025521, #550236);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #04AF44 0%, #025521 45%, #037D30 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #1F8703 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #03736E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #037D30 0%, transparent 65%), #025521;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #025521

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#025521 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
SustainabilityFinanceHealth and wellnessAgriculture
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 2.32:1 — lift it to #038734 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#025521, answered

What color is #025521?

#025521 is a deep electric green, closest to Dark Green (ΔE2000 8). It sits at 142° on the hue wheel with 95% saturation and 17% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #025521?

rgb(2, 85, 33) — 2 red, 85 green and 33 blue out of 255, or 0.8% / 33.3% / 12.9% by channel.

What is #025521 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(142, 95%, 17%) and hsv(142, 98%, 33%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #025521 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0662 and perceived brightness is 26%, so white text on it reaches 9.04:1.

Should I use black or white text on #025521?

White. It scores 9.04:1 against #025521, versus 2.32:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #025521 accessible on a white background?

#025521 on white scores 9.04:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #025521?

#550236 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #4B0255 and #55020D, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #025521?

For interface work: #F4FAF7 as the surface, #C0EDD1 for borders, #4B9B69 for secondary text, #57004C as an accent and #037D30 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #0D5502 and #02554B stays calm, while #550236 is the loudest partner.

What is #025521 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(98%, 0%, 61%, 67%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #025521 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 72 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #025503; nudged cooler, #015640.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #025521?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 28.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #025521 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #025521 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#025521] or text-[#025521], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #025521 with 50% opacity?

rgba(2, 85, 33, 0.5), or #02552180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #81AA90; over black, #012B11.

Is #025521 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #006633, ΔE2000 5.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #025521 mean?

As a green, it reads safe, growing, natural. Green means go, well, and grown. It carries finance, sustainability and health with almost no explanation needed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #025521?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #039138, #025521 45%, #037D30). For more colour, a short hue run to #013137 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #025521 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #025521 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.