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#22ffaf

a balanced, electric green · cool · closest name: Medium Spring Green

Token name suggestion: Atlas Basil

RGB
34, 255, 175
HSL
158°, 100%, 57%
CMYK
87, 0, 31, 0
Luminance
0.7496

#22ffaf is a balanced electric green, 158° on the wheel and 78/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.99:1). As text it scores 1.31:1 on white — use #008857 instead. Nearest name is Medium Spring Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(158 100% 57%)rgb(34 255 175)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #22ffaf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#22ffaf
Hue
158°
green
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
57%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
80%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7496
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
78/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.99:1
Closest name
Medium Spring Green
ΔE2000 3.1
Chroma
71.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.885
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 14.8
Web-safe
#33FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue158° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness57%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #22ffaf.

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
Red0%
Green95%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#22ffaf
HEX (8-digit)#22ffafff
RGBrgb(34, 255, 175)
RGBArgba(34, 255, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(158, 100%, 57%)
HSV / HSBhsv(158, 87%, 100%)
HWBhwb(158 13% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(87%, 0%, 31%, 0%)
LABlab(89.4 -66.9 24.6)
LCHlch(89.4 71.3 159.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.885 0.192 161.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(44.15, 74.95, 52.69)
Decimal2293679
Display P3color(display-p3 0.133 1.000 0.686)
Web-safe#33FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #22ffaf;
background-color: #22ffaf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #22ffaf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#22ffaf] bg-[#22ffaf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #22ffaf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.133, green: 1.000, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.133, green: 1.000, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#22FFAF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF22FFAF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF22FFAF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 255, 34)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(34, 255, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(34, 255, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 34, 255, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1333f, 1.0000f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{34,255,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #22ffaf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #22ffaf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#008051, #D3EEE4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #22ffaf 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: #F1FEF9;
  --brand-100: #E3FCF3;
  --brand-200: #C0FCE6;
  --brand-300: #8FFFD6;
  --brand-400: #57FFC2;
  --brand-500: #22ffaf;
  --brand-600: #00F59C;
  --brand-700: #00CC82;
  --brand-800: #00A368;
  --brand-900: #05764D;
  --brand-950: #034930;
  --brand: #22ffaf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDC;
  --brand-hover: #00FDA2;
  --brand-pressed: #00DA8B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241E;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FEF9',
        100: '#E3FCF3',
        200: '#C0FCE6',
        300: '#8FFFD6',
        400: '#57FFC2',
        500: '#22ffaf',
        600: '#00F59C',
        700: '#00CC82',
        800: '#00A368',
        900: '#05764D',
        950: '#034930',
        DEFAULT: '#22ffaf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FEF9,
  '100': #E3FCF3,
  '200': #C0FCE6,
  '300': #8FFFD6,
  '400': #57FFC2,
  '500': #22ffaf,
  '600': #00F59C,
  '700': #00CC82,
  '800': #00A368,
  '900': #05764D,
  '950': #034930,
);
$brand-base: #22ffaf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FEF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C0FCE6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8FFFD6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#57FFC2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#22ffaf", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#00F59C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#00CC82", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#00A368", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#05764D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#034930", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$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#000000 on #22ffaf · 15.99:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.31:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.99:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #22ffaf as text scores 1.31:1 on white and 15.99:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #008051 at 3.80:1.

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
#008857 · 4.51:1
AA on white−30% L
#008857
The quick fox
#006440 · 7.25:1
AAA on white−37% L
#006440
The quick fox
#22ffaf · 15.99:1
AA on blackalready passes
#22ffaf
The quick fox
#22ffaf · 15.99:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#22ffaf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #00A76A 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
#22ffaf on white: 1.31:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#22ffaf on black: 15.99:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #22ffaf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #22ffaf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.31:1AaAa
Slate 501.26:1AaAa
Slate 1001.20:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.13:1AaAa
Slate 4001.95:1AaAa
Slate 5003.62:1AaAa
Slate 6005.77:1AaAa
Slate 7007.88:1AaAa
Slate 80011.14:1AaAa
Slate 90013.59:1AaAa
Black15.99:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FBEBAA
deuteranopia · #E3D9B4
tritanopia · #00FEEA

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. #22ffaf is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FEF9
#E3FCF3
#C0FCE6
#8FFFD6
#57FFC2
#22ffaf
#00F59C
#00CC82
#00A368
#05764D
#034930
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F1FEF9Darkest = 950 · #034930Text 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 0.048 161.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.077 161.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.115 161.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.150 161.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.177 161.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.192 161.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.192 161.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.181 161.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.161 161.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.135 161.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.106 161.0);
}

Colors that work with #22ffaf

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

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDDC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B7E
Captions on the surface
Accent#FF22A9
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#008051
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E5FFF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241E
Dark-mode background
Hover#00FDA2
One step down in lightness
Pressed#00DA8B
Two steps down
Disabled#BDD5CC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#37FFB7
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 #22ffaf

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #008051
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #00A76A

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight43/100
  • 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#FF2272
Analogous left#22FF41
Analogous right#22E0FF
Split-complement 1#FF22E0
Split-complement 2#FF4122
Triadic 1#AF22FF
Triadic 2#FFAF22
Tetradic#4122FF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°158°

#22ffaf sits at 158°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red13.3%
Green100.0%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
34
0x22
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan86.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow31.4%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 118%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#22ffaf text on a black background

contrast 15.99:1

Card sample

#22ffaf text on a white background

contrast 1.31:1

Card sample

#22ffaf on grey

1.20:1

#22ffaf on its own surface

1.24:1

#22ffaf on its dark surface

12.29:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #22ffaf;
Background color
Panel with #22ffaf background
background-color: #22ffaf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #22ffaf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(34, 255, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(34, 255, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #22ffaf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #22ffaf, #22BCFF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #22ffaf, #2284FF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #22ffaf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #22ffaf;
caret-color: #22ffaf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #22ffaf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E5FFF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #22ffaf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#22ffaf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #22ffaf 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(34, 255, 175, 0.5)
rgb(34 255 175 / 50%)
#22ffaf80
hsl(158 100% 57% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #22ffaf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#22ffaf1a#E9FFF7
20%#22ffaf33#D3FFEF
40%#22ffaf66#A7FFDF
60%#22ffaf99#7AFFCF
80%#22ffafcc#4EFFBF

Gradients from #22ffaf

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, #5FFFC5, #22ffaf 45%, #008051);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #22ffaf, #049DFF);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #22ffaf, #FF2272);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #7EFFD0 0%, #22ffaf 45%, #008051 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%, #55FF5F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #41D5FF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #008051 0%, transparent 65%), #22ffaf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #22ffaf

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.

#22ffaf 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 15.99:1.

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.

#22ffaf, answered

What color is #22ffaf?

#22ffaf is a balanced electric green, closest to Medium Spring Green (ΔE2000 3.1). It sits at 158° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 57% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #22ffaf?

rgb(34, 255, 175) — 34 red, 255 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 13.3% / 100% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #22ffaf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(158, 100%, 57%) and hsv(158, 87%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #22ffaf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7496 and perceived brightness is 80%, so black text on it reaches 15.99:1.

Should I use black or white text on #22ffaf?

Black. It scores 15.99:1 against #22ffaf, versus 1.31:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #22ffaf accessible on a white background?

#22ffaf on white scores 1.31:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #008857 to reach 4.5:1, or #006440 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #22ffaf?

#FF2272 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FF22E0 and #FF4122, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #22ffaf?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDC for borders, #4B9B7E for secondary text, #FF22A9 as an accent and #008051 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #22FF41 and #22E0FF stays calm, while #FF2272 is the loudest partner.

What is #22ffaf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(87%, 0%, 31%, 0%). 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 #22ffaf 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 #22FF5E; nudged cooler, #22FEFF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #22ffaf?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 14.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #22ffaf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #22ffaf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#22ffaf] or text-[#22ffaf], 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 #22ffaf with 50% opacity?

rgba(34, 255, 175, 0.5), or #22ffaf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #91FFD7; over black, #118058.

Is #22ffaf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FF99, ΔE2000 3.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #22ffaf 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 #22ffaf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #5FFFC5, #22ffaf 45%, #008051). For more colour, a short hue run to #049DFF keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #22ffaf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #22ffaf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.