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#047721

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

Token name suggestion: Abyss Basil

RGB
4, 119, 33
HSL
135°, 94%, 24%
CMYK
97, 0, 72, 53
Luminance
0.1333

#047721 is a deep electric green, 135° on the wheel and 69/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.73:1). As text it scores 5.73:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Green, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(135 94% 24%)rgb(4 119 33)Base step 900AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #047721 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#047721
Hue
135°
green
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
24%
deep
Brightness
47%
HSV value
Perceived
36%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1333
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
69/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.73:1
Closest name
Green
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
60.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.495
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 24.2
Web-safe
#006633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue135° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness24%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #047721.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool69% 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#047721
HEX (8-digit)#047721ff
RGBrgb(4, 119, 33)
RGBArgba(4, 119, 33, 1)
HSLhsl(135, 94%, 24%)
HSV / HSBhsv(135, 97%, 47%)
HWBhwb(135 2% 53%)
CMYKcmyk(97%, 0%, 72%, 53%)
LABlab(43.3 -46.6 37.7)
LCHlch(43.3 60.0 141.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.495 0.152 145.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(6.92, 13.33, 3.65)
Decimal292641
Display P3color(display-p3 0.016 0.467 0.129)
Web-safe#006633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #047721;
background-color: #047721;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #047721;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#047721] bg-[#047721]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #047721;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.016, green: 0.467, blue: 0.129)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.016, green: 0.467, blue: 0.129, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#047721</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF047721)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF047721)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(33, 119, 4)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(4, 119, 33)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(4, 119, 33)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 4, 119, 33)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0157f, 0.4667f, 0.1294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{4,119,33}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #047721 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #047721 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#047B22, #D3EEDA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #047721 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: #F2FDF4;
  --brand-100: #E4FBEA;
  --brand-200: #C2FAD0;
  --brand-300: #92FBAD;
  --brand-400: #5CFA84;
  --brand-500: #26F85B;
  --brand-600: #08ED42;
  --brand-700: #07C537;
  --brand-800: #059E2C;
  --brand-900: #047721;
  --brand-950: #054716;
  --brand: #047721;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C0EDCB;
  --brand-hover: #035417;
  --brand-pressed: #02320E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142418;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDF4',
        100: '#E4FBEA',
        200: '#C2FAD0',
        300: '#92FBAD',
        400: '#5CFA84',
        500: '#26F85B',
        600: '#08ED42',
        700: '#07C537',
        800: '#059E2C',
        900: '#047721',
        950: '#054716',
        DEFAULT: '#047721',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDF4,
  '100': #E4FBEA,
  '200': #C2FAD0,
  '300': #92FBAD,
  '400': #5CFA84,
  '500': #26F85B,
  '600': #08ED42,
  '700': #07C537,
  '800': #059E2C,
  '900': #047721,
  '950': #054716,
);
$brand-base: #047721;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FBEA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2FAD0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92FBAD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CFA84", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#26F85B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#08ED42", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#07C537", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#059E2C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#047721", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#054716", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #047721 · 5.73:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.73:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.67:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #047721 as text scores 5.73:1 on white and 3.67:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E6FEEC at 5.39:1.

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
#047721 · 5.73:1
AA on whitealready passes
#047721
The quick fox
#03681D · 7.00:1
AAA on white−3% L
#03681D
The quick fox
#058B26 · 4.73:1
AA on black+4% L
#058B26
The quick fox
#06AD30 · 7.03:1
AAA on black+11% L
#06AD30

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #047721 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
#047721 on white: 5.73:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#047721 on black: 3.67:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #047721 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #047721.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.73:1AaAa
Slate 505.48:1AaAa
Slate 1005.23:1AaAa
Slate 2004.65:1AaAa
Slate 3003.86:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5001.20:1AaAa
Slate 6001.32:1AaAa
Slate 7001.81:1AaAa
Slate 8002.55:1AaAa
Slate 9003.12:1AaAa
Black3.67:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #796B14
deuteranopia · #6E6329
tritanopia · #007466

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. #047721 is pinned to step 900; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FDF4
#E4FBEA
#C2FAD0
#92FBAD
#5CFA84
#26F85B
#08ED42
#07C537
#059E2C
#047721
#054716
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #F2FDF4Darkest = 950 · #054716Text 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 0.038 145.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.061 145.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.091 145.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.119 145.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.140 145.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.152 145.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.152 145.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.143 145.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.128 145.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.107 145.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.084 145.4);
}

Colors that work with #047721

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#F4FAF6
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDCB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B5F
Captions on the surface
Accent#790279
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#047B22
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FEEC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142418
Dark-mode background
Hover#035417
One step down in lightness
Pressed#02320E
Two steps down
Disabled#5C8F69
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#008F24
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 #047721

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
  • 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
  • Weight76/100
  • 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#77045A
Analogous left#217704
Analogous right#04775A
Split-complement 1#5A0477
Split-complement 2#770421
Triadic 1#210477
Triadic 2#772104
Tetradic#042177
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°135°

#047721 sits at 135°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red1.6%
Green46.7%
Blue12.9%
R · 0–255
4
0x04
G · 0–255
119
0x77
B · 0–255
33
0x21

CMYK percentages

Cyan96.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow72.3%
Key (black)53.3%

Total ink coverage is 222%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#047721 text on a black background

contrast 3.67:1

Card sample

#047721 text on a white background

contrast 5.73:1

Card sample

#047721 on grey

5.23:1

#047721 on its own surface

5.42:1

#047721 on its dark surface

2.83:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #047721;
Background color
Panel with #047721 background
background-color: #047721;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #047721;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(4, 119, 33, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(4, 119, 33, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #047721;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #047721, #04776E);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #047721, #046477);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #047721;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #047721;
caret-color: #047721;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #047721;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FEEC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #047721;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#047721 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #047721 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(4, 119, 33, 0.5)
rgb(4 119 33 / 50%)
#04772180
hsl(135 94% 24% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #047721 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0477211a#E6F1E9
20%#04772133#CDE4D3
40%#04772166#9BC9A6
60%#04772199#68AD7A
80%#047721cc#36924D

Gradients from #047721

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, #06B231, #047721 45%, #047B22);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #047721, #035959);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #047721, #77045A);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #07D03A 0%, #047721 45%, #047B22 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #3CA806 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #05957D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #047B22 0%, transparent 65%), #047721;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #047721

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.

#047721 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 3.67:1 — lift it to #058B26 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.

#047721, answered

What color is #047721?

#047721 is a deep electric green, closest to Green (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 135° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 24% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #047721?

rgb(4, 119, 33) — 4 red, 119 green and 33 blue out of 255, or 1.6% / 46.7% / 12.9% by channel.

What is #047721 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(135, 94%, 24%) and hsv(135, 97%, 47%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #047721 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1333 and perceived brightness is 36%, so white text on it reaches 5.73:1.

Should I use black or white text on #047721?

White. It scores 5.73:1 against #047721, versus 3.67:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #047721 accessible on a white background?

#047721 on white scores 5.73:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #047721?

#77045A sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #5A0477 and #770421, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #047721?

For interface work: #F4FAF6 as the surface, #C0EDCB for borders, #4B9B5F for secondary text, #790279 as an accent and #047B22 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #217704 and #04775A stays calm, while #77045A is the loudest partner.

What is #047721 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(97%, 0%, 72%, 53%). 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 #047721 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 69 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #117704; nudged cooler, #03784B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #047721?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 24.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #047721 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #047721 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#047721] or text-[#047721], 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 #047721 with 50% opacity?

rgba(4, 119, 33, 0.5), or #04772180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #82BB90; over black, #023C11.

Is #047721 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #006633, ΔE2000 8.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #047721 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 #047721?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #06B231, #047721 45%, #047B22). For more colour, a short hue run to #035959 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #047721 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #047721 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.