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#116f4b

a dark, vivid green · cool · closest name: Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Slate Basil

RGB
17, 111, 75
HSL
157°, 73%, 25%
CMYK
85, 0, 32, 57
Luminance
0.1200

#116f4b is a dark vivid green, 157° on the wheel and 78/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (6.18:1). As text it scores 6.18:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(157 73% 25%)rgb(17 111 75)Base step 900AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #116f4b is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#116f4b
Hue
157°
green
Saturation
73%
vivid
Lightness
25%
dark
Brightness
44%
HSV value
Perceived
35%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1200
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
78/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
6.18:1
Closest name
Sea Green
ΔE2000 10.6
Chroma
37.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.481
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 24.2
Web-safe
#006633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue157° of 360°
Saturation73%
Lightness25%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #116f4b.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool78% 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
Red1%
Green95%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#116f4b
HEX (8-digit)#116f4bff
RGBrgb(17, 111, 75)
RGBArgba(17, 111, 75, 1)
HSLhsl(157, 73%, 25%)
HSV / HSBhsv(157, 85%, 44%)
HWBhwb(157 7% 56%)
CMYKcmyk(85%, 0%, 32%, 57%)
LABlab(41.2 -35.2 12.8)
LCHlch(41.2 37.5 159.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.481 0.101 161.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(7.18, 12.00, 8.59)
Decimal1142603
Display P3color(display-p3 0.067 0.435 0.294)
Web-safe#006633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #116f4b;
background-color: #116f4b;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #116f4b;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#116f4b] bg-[#116f4b]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #116f4b;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.067, green: 0.435, blue: 0.294)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.067, green: 0.435, blue: 0.294, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#116F4B</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF116F4B)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF116F4B)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(75, 111, 17)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(17, 111, 75)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(17, 111, 75)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 17, 111, 75)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0667f, 0.4353f, 0.2941f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{17,111,75}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #116f4b 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #116f4b 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#116F4B, #D3EEE4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #116f4b 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: #F3FCF8;
  --brand-100: #E7F8F2;
  --brand-200: #C8F3E3;
  --brand-300: #9EF0D1;
  --brand-400: #6DE9B9;
  --brand-500: #3CE1A2;
  --brand-600: #21D48F;
  --brand-700: #1BB177;
  --brand-800: #168D60;
  --brand-900: #116f4b;
  --brand-950: #0C402C;
  --brand: #116f4b;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDB;
  --brand-hover: #0C5036;
  --brand-pressed: #083121;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241E;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF8',
        100: '#E7F8F2',
        200: '#C8F3E3',
        300: '#9EF0D1',
        400: '#6DE9B9',
        500: '#3CE1A2',
        600: '#21D48F',
        700: '#1BB177',
        800: '#168D60',
        900: '#116f4b',
        950: '#0C402C',
        DEFAULT: '#116f4b',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF8,
  '100': #E7F8F2,
  '200': #C8F3E3,
  '300': #9EF0D1,
  '400': #6DE9B9,
  '500': #3CE1A2,
  '600': #21D48F,
  '700': #1BB177,
  '800': #168D60,
  '900': #116f4b,
  '950': #0C402C,
);
$brand-base: #116f4b;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F8F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C8F3E3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9EF0D1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6DE9B9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3CE1A2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#21D48F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1BB177", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#168D60", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#116f4b", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0C402C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #116f4b · 6.18:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 6.18:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.40:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #116f4b as text scores 6.18:1 on white and 3.40:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E9FCF4 at 5.79:1.

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
#116f4b · 6.18:1
AA on whitealready passes
#116f4b
The quick fox
#0F6242 · 7.38:1
AAA on white−3% L
#0F6242
The quick fox
#14855A · 4.53:1
AA on black+5% L
#14855A
The quick fox
#1BAD75 · 7.28:1
AAA on black+14% L
#1BAD75

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #116F4B 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
#116f4b on white: 6.18:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#116f4b on black: 3.40:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #116f4b as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #116f4b.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.18:1AaAa
Slate 505.90:1AaAa
Slate 1005.64:1AaAa
Slate 2005.01:1AaAa
Slate 3004.16:1AaAa
Slate 4002.41:1AaAa
Slate 5001.30:1AaAa
Slate 6001.23:1AaAa
Slate 7001.68:1AaAa
Slate 8002.37:1AaAa
Slate 9002.89:1AaAa
Black3.40:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #6D6649
deuteranopia · #625E4D
tritanopia · #006F65

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. #116f4b 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.

#F3FCF8
#E7F8F2
#C8F3E3
#9EF0D1
#6DE9B9
#3CE1A2
#21D48F
#1BB177
#168D60
#116f4b
#0C402C
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF8Darkest = 950 · #0C402CText 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 0.025 161.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 161.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.061 161.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.079 161.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.093 161.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.101 161.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.101 161.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.095 161.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.085 161.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.071 161.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.056 161.2);
}

Colors that work with #116f4b

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#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDDB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B7C
Captions on the surface
Accent#720E4D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#116F4B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FCF4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241E
Dark-mode background
Hover#0C5036
One step down in lightness
Pressed#083121
Two steps down
Disabled#5E937E
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0C8859
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 #116f4b

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight75/100
  • 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#6F1135
Analogous left#116F1C
Analogous right#11646F
Split-complement 1#6F1164
Split-complement 2#6F1C11
Triadic 1#4B116F
Triadic 2#6F4B11
Tetradic#1C116F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°157°

#116f4b sits at 157°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red6.7%
Green43.5%
Blue29.4%
R · 0–255
17
0x11
G · 0–255
111
0x6f
B · 0–255
75
0x4b

CMYK percentages

Cyan84.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow32.4%
Key (black)56.5%

Total ink coverage is 174%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#116f4b text on a black background

contrast 3.40:1

Card sample

#116f4b text on a white background

contrast 6.18:1

Card sample

#116f4b on grey

5.64:1

#116f4b on its own surface

5.85:1

#116f4b on its dark surface

2.61:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #116f4b;
Background color
Panel with #116f4b background
background-color: #116f4b;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #116f4b;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(17, 111, 75, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(17, 111, 75, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #116f4b;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #116f4b, #11546F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #116f4b, #113D6F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #116f4b;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #116f4b;
caret-color: #116f4b;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #116f4b;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FCF4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #116f4b;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#116f4b 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #116f4b 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(17, 111, 75, 0.5)
rgb(17 111 75 / 50%)
#116f4b80
hsl(157 73% 25% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #116f4b 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#116f4b1a#E7F1ED
20%#116f4b33#CFE2DB
40%#116f4b66#A0C5B7
60%#116f4b99#70A993
80%#116f4bcc#418C6F

Gradients from #116f4b

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, #19A46F, #116f4b 45%, #116F4B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #116f4b, #0D3A54);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #116f4b, #6F1135);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #1DBF81 0%, #116f4b 45%, #116F4B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #189B1C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #15728A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #116F4B 0%, transparent 65%), #116f4b;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #116f4b

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.

#116f4b 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 3.40:1 — lift it to #14855A 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.

#116f4b, answered

What color is #116f4b?

#116f4b is a dark vivid green, closest to Sea Green (ΔE2000 10.6). It sits at 157° on the hue wheel with 73% saturation and 25% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #116f4b?

rgb(17, 111, 75) — 17 red, 111 green and 75 blue out of 255, or 6.7% / 43.5% / 29.4% by channel.

What is #116f4b in HSL and HSV?

hsl(157, 73%, 25%) and hsv(157, 85%, 44%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #116f4b a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1200 and perceived brightness is 35%, so white text on it reaches 6.18:1.

Should I use black or white text on #116f4b?

White. It scores 6.18:1 against #116f4b, versus 3.40:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #116f4b accessible on a white background?

#116f4b on white scores 6.18:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #116f4b?

#6F1135 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6F1164 and #6F1C11, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #116f4b?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDB for borders, #4B9B7C for secondary text, #720E4D as an accent and #116F4B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #116F1C and #11646F stays calm, while #6F1135 is the loudest partner.

What is #116f4b in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(85%, 0%, 32%, 57%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #116f4b warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 78 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #116F29; nudged cooler, #10706F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #116f4b?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 24.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #116f4b as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #116f4b in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#116f4b] or text-[#116f4b], 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 #116f4b with 50% opacity?

rgba(17, 111, 75, 0.5), or #116f4b80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #88B7A5; over black, #093826.

Is #116f4b a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #006633, ΔE2000 5.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #116f4b 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 #116f4b?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #19A46F, #116f4b 45%, #116F4B). For more colour, a short hue run to #0D3A54 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #116f4b in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #116f4b at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.