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#03480d

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

Token name suggestion: Abyss Fern

RGB
3, 72, 13
HSL
129°, 92%, 15%
CMYK
96, 0, 82, 72
Luminance
0.0468

#03480d is a deep electric green, 129° on the wheel and 66/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (10.84:1). As text it scores 10.84:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Green, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(129 92% 15%)rgb(3 72 13)Base step 950AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #03480d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#03480d
Hue
129°
green
Saturation
92%
electric
Lightness
15%
deep
Brightness
28%
HSV value
Perceived
22%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0468
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
66/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
10.84:1
Closest name
Dark Green
ΔE2000 9.7
Chroma
43.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.350
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 30.3
Web-safe
#003300
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue129° of 360°
Saturation92%
Lightness15%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #03480d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool66% 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%
Green99%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#03480d
HEX (8-digit)#03480dff
RGBrgb(3, 72, 13)
RGBArgba(3, 72, 13, 1)
HSLhsl(129, 92%, 15%)
HSV / HSBhsv(129, 96%, 28%)
HWBhwb(129 1% 72%)
CMYKcmyk(96%, 0%, 82%, 72%)
LABlab(25.8 -33.0 28.1)
LCHlch(25.8 43.3 139.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.350 0.109 144.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(2.43, 4.68, 1.16)
Decimal215053
Display P3color(display-p3 0.012 0.282 0.051)
Web-safe#003300

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #03480d;
background-color: #03480d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #03480d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#03480d] bg-[#03480d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #03480d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.012, green: 0.282, blue: 0.051)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.012, green: 0.282, blue: 0.051, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#03480D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF03480D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF03480D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(13, 72, 3)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(3, 72, 13)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(3, 72, 13)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 3, 72, 13)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0118f, 0.2824f, 0.0510f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{3,72,13}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #03480d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #03480d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#057A16, #D3EED7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #03480d 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: #F2FDF3;
  --brand-100: #E4FBE8;
  --brand-200: #C3F9CB;
  --brand-300: #93FBA2;
  --brand-400: #5DF874;
  --brand-500: #28F646;
  --brand-600: #0AEB2A;
  --brand-700: #08C423;
  --brand-800: #079D1C;
  --brand-900: #097118;
  --brand-950: #03480d;
  --brand: #03480d;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C0EDC6;
  --brand-hover: #022607;
  --brand-pressed: #000301;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142416;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDF3',
        100: '#E4FBE8',
        200: '#C3F9CB',
        300: '#93FBA2',
        400: '#5DF874',
        500: '#28F646',
        600: '#0AEB2A',
        700: '#08C423',
        800: '#079D1C',
        900: '#097118',
        950: '#03480d',
        DEFAULT: '#03480d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDF3,
  '100': #E4FBE8,
  '200': #C3F9CB,
  '300': #93FBA2,
  '400': #5DF874,
  '500': #28F646,
  '600': #0AEB2A,
  '700': #08C423,
  '800': #079D1C,
  '900': #097118,
  '950': #03480d,
);
$brand-base: #03480d;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FBE8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C3F9CB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#93FBA2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5DF874", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#28F646", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0AEB2A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#08C423", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#079D1C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#097118", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#03480d", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #03480d · 10.84:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 10.84:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.94:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #03480d as text scores 10.84:1 on white and 1.94:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E7FEEA at 10.20:1.

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
#03480d · 10.84:1
AA on whitealready passes
#03480d
The quick fox
#03480d · 10.84:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#03480d
The quick fox
#068818 · 4.54:1
AA on black+13% L
#068818
The quick fox
#07AF20 · 7.16:1
AAA on black+21% L
#07AF20

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #03480D 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
#03480d on white: 10.84:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#03480d on black: 1.94:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #03480d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #03480d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White10.84:1AaAa
Slate 5010.36:1AaAa
Slate 1009.90:1AaAa
Slate 2008.80:1AaAa
Slate 3007.30:1AaAa
Slate 4004.23:1AaAa
Slate 5002.28:1AaAa
Slate 6001.43:1AaAa
Slate 7001.05:1AaAa
Slate 8001.35:1AaAa
Slate 9001.65:1AaAa
Black1.94:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #494004
deuteranopia · #423B13
tritanopia · #00463D

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. #03480d 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.

#F2FDF3
#E4FBE8
#C3F9CB
#93FBA2
#5DF874
#28F646
#0AEB2A
#08C423
#079D1C
#097118
#03480d
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #F2FDF3Darkest = 950 · #03480dText 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 0.027 144.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.044 144.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.066 144.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.085 144.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.101 144.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.109 144.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.109 144.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.103 144.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.092 144.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.077 144.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.060 144.4);
}

Colors that work with #03480d

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#F4FAF5
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDC6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B56
Captions on the surface
Accent#420149
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#057A16
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FEEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142416
Dark-mode background
Hover#022607
One step down in lightness
Pressed#000301
Two steps down
Disabled#49724F
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#005F0E
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #03480d

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
  • Weight85/100
  • 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#48033E
Analogous left#1B4803
Analogous right#03482F
Split-complement 1#2F0348
Split-complement 2#48031B
Triadic 1#0D0348
Triadic 2#480D03
Tetradic#031B48
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°129°

#03480d sits at 129°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red1.2%
Green28.2%
Blue5.1%
R · 0–255
3
0x03
G · 0–255
72
0x48
B · 0–255
13
0x0d

CMYK percentages

Cyan95.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow81.9%
Key (black)71.8%

Total ink coverage is 250%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#03480d text on a black background

contrast 1.94:1

Card sample

#03480d text on a white background

contrast 10.84:1

Card sample

#03480d on grey

9.90:1

#03480d on its own surface

10.24:1

#03480d on its dark surface

1.50:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #03480d;
Background color
Panel with #03480d background
background-color: #03480d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #03480d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(3, 72, 13, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(3, 72, 13, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #03480d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #03480d, #03483B);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #03480d, #034448);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #03480d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #03480d;
caret-color: #03480d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #03480d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FEEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #03480d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#03480d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #03480d 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(3, 72, 13, 0.5)
rgb(3 72 13 / 50%)
#03480d80
hsl(129 92% 15% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #03480d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#03480d1a#E6EDE7
20%#03480d33#CDDACF
40%#03480d66#9AB69E
60%#03480d99#68916E
80%#03480dcc#356D3D

Gradients from #03480d

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, #058318, #03480d 45%, #057A16);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #03480d, #022B26);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #03480d, #48033E);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #07A01D 0%, #03480d 45%, #057A16 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #387905 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #04654B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #057A16 0%, transparent 65%), #03480d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #03480d

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.

#03480d 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

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.94:1 — lift it to #068818 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.

#03480d, answered

What color is #03480d?

#03480d is a deep electric green, closest to Dark Green (ΔE2000 9.7). It sits at 129° on the hue wheel with 92% saturation and 15% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #03480d?

rgb(3, 72, 13) — 3 red, 72 green and 13 blue out of 255, or 1.2% / 28.2% / 5.1% by channel.

What is #03480d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(129, 92%, 15%) and hsv(129, 96%, 28%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #03480d a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0468 and perceived brightness is 22%, so white text on it reaches 10.84:1.

Should I use black or white text on #03480d?

White. It scores 10.84:1 against #03480d, versus 1.94:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #03480d accessible on a white background?

#03480d on white scores 10.84:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #03480d?

#48033E sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #2F0348 and #48031B, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #03480d?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C0EDC6 for borders, #4B9B56 for secondary text, #420149 as an accent and #057A16 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #1B4803 and #03482F stays calm, while #48033E is the loudest partner.

What is #03480d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(96%, 0%, 82%, 72%). 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 #03480d warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 66 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #124803; nudged cooler, #024926.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #03480d?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 30.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #03480d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #03480d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#03480d] or text-[#03480d], 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 #03480d with 50% opacity?

rgba(3, 72, 13, 0.5), or #03480d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #81A486; over black, #022407.

Is #03480d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #003300, ΔE2000 6.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #03480d 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 #03480d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #058318, #03480d 45%, #057A16). For more colour, a short hue run to #022B26 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #03480d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #03480d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.