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#262f0b

a deep, vivid green · warm · closest name: Dark Slate Gray

Token name suggestion: Ink Basil

RGB
38, 47, 11
HSL
75°, 62%, 11%
CMYK
19, 0, 77, 82
Luminance
0.0247

#262f0b is a deep vivid green, 75° on the wheel and 38/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (14.06:1). As text it scores 14.06:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Gray, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(75 62% 11%)rgb(38 47 11)Base step 950AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #262f0b is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#262f0b
Hue
75°
green
Saturation
62%
vivid
Lightness
11%
deep
Brightness
18%
HSV value
Perceived
16%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0247
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
38/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
14.06:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Gray
ΔE2000 19.6
Chroma
23.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.288
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 29.4
Web-safe
#333300
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue75° of 360°
Saturation62%
Lightness11%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #262f0b.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool38% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red17%
Green82%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#262f0b
HEX (8-digit)#262f0bff
RGBrgb(38, 47, 11)
RGBArgba(38, 47, 11, 1)
HSLhsl(75, 62%, 11%)
HSV / HSBhsv(75, 77%, 18%)
HWBhwb(75 4% 82%)
CMYKcmyk(19%, 0%, 77%, 82%)
LABlab(17.8 -10.5 20.7)
LCHlch(17.8 23.2 116.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.288 0.057 122.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(1.88, 2.47, 0.69)
Decimal2502411
Display P3color(display-p3 0.149 0.184 0.043)
Web-safe#333300

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #262f0b;
background-color: #262f0b;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #262f0b;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#262f0b] bg-[#262f0b]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #262f0b;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.149, green: 0.184, blue: 0.043)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.149, green: 0.184, blue: 0.043, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#262F0B</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF262F0B)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF262F0B)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(11, 47, 38)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(38, 47, 11)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(38, 47, 11)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 38, 47, 11)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1490f, 0.1843f, 0.0431f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{38,47,11}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #262f0b 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #262f0b 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#546718, #E7EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #262f0b 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: #F9FBF4;
  --brand-100: #F3F7E8;
  --brand-200: #E7F0CC;
  --brand-300: #D8EAA4;
  --brand-400: #C5DF77;
  --brand-500: #B2D449;
  --brand-600: #A0C62E;
  --brand-700: #86A527;
  --brand-800: #6B841F;
  --brand-900: #4F601A;
  --brand-950: #262f0b;
  --brand: #262f0b;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E1EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #0F1204;
  --brand-pressed: #000000;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #202414;
    --brand-ink: #E7EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF4',
        100: '#F3F7E8',
        200: '#E7F0CC',
        300: '#D8EAA4',
        400: '#C5DF77',
        500: '#B2D449',
        600: '#A0C62E',
        700: '#86A527',
        800: '#6B841F',
        900: '#4F601A',
        950: '#262f0b',
        DEFAULT: '#262f0b',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF4,
  '100': #F3F7E8,
  '200': #E7F0CC,
  '300': #D8EAA4,
  '400': #C5DF77,
  '500': #B2D449,
  '600': #A0C62E,
  '700': #86A527,
  '800': #6B841F,
  '900': #4F601A,
  '950': #262f0b,
);
$brand-base: #262f0b;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3F7E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E7F0CC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D8EAA4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C5DF77", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B2D449", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A0C62E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#86A527", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6B841F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4F601A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#262f0b", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #262f0b · 14.06:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 14.06:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.49:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #262f0b as text scores 14.06:1 on white and 1.49:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F6FAEA at 13.24:1.

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
#262f0b · 14.06:1
AA on whitealready passes
#262f0b
The quick fox
#262f0b · 14.06:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#262f0b
The quick fox
#667E1D · 4.57:1
AA on black+19% L
#667E1D
The quick fox
#84A326 · 7.25:1
AAA on black+28% L
#84A326

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #262F0B 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
#262f0b on white: 14.06:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#262f0b on black: 1.49:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #262f0b as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #262f0b.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White14.06:1AaAa
Slate 5013.44:1AaAa
Slate 10012.83:1AaAa
Slate 20011.40:1AaAa
Slate 3009.47:1AaAa
Slate 4005.48:1AaAa
Slate 5002.95:1AaAa
Slate 6001.86:1AaAa
Slate 7001.36:1AaAa
Slate 8001.04:1AaAa
Slate 9001.27:1AaAa
Black1.49:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #322C07
deuteranopia · #312C0E
tritanopia · #282C28

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. #262f0b 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.

#F9FBF4
#F3F7E8
#E7F0CC
#D8EAA4
#C5DF77
#B2D449
#A0C62E
#86A527
#6B841F
#4F601A
#262f0b
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF4Darkest = 950 · #262f0bText 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 0.014 122.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.023 122.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.034 122.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.045 122.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.053 122.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.057 122.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.057 122.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.054 122.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.048 122.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.040 122.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.031 122.0);
}

Colors that work with #262f0b

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#F9FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E1EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#879B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0A0A30
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#546718
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6FAEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#202414
Dark-mode background
Hover#0F1204
One step down in lightness
Pressed#000000
Two steps down
Disabled#5F6842
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#35440B
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #262f0b

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.

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
  • Weight89/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

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#140B2F
Analogous left#2F260B
Analogous right#142F0B
Split-complement 1#0B142F
Split-complement 2#260B2F
Triadic 1#0B262F
Triadic 2#2F0B26
Tetradic#0B2F26
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°75°

#262f0b sits at 75°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red14.9%
Green18.4%
Blue4.3%
R · 0–255
38
0x26
G · 0–255
47
0x2f
B · 0–255
11
0x0b

CMYK percentages

Cyan19.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow76.6%
Key (black)81.6%

Total ink coverage is 177%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#262f0b text on a black background

contrast 1.49:1

Card sample

#262f0b text on a white background

contrast 14.06:1

Card sample

#262f0b on grey

12.83:1

#262f0b on its own surface

13.39:1

#262f0b on its dark surface

1.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #262f0b;
Background color
Panel with #262f0b background
background-color: #262f0b;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #262f0b;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(38, 47, 11, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(38, 47, 11, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #262f0b;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #262f0b, #0E2F0B);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #262f0b, #0B2F11);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #262f0b;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #262f0b;
caret-color: #262f0b;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #262f0b;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6FAEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #262f0b;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#262f0b 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #262f0b 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(38, 47, 11, 0.5)
rgb(38 47 11 / 50%)
#262f0b80
hsl(75 62% 11% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #262f0b 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#262f0b1a#E9EAE7
20%#262f0b33#D4D5CE
40%#262f0b66#A8AC9D
60%#262f0b99#7D826D
80%#262f0bcc#51593C

Gradients from #262f0b

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, #4E6117, #262f0b 45%, #546718);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #262f0b, #051605);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #262f0b, #140B2F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #627A1C 0%, #262f0b 45%, #546718 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #584215 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #1A4811 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #546718 0%, transparent 65%), #262f0b;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #262f0b

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.

#262f0b 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

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 1.49:1 — lift it to #667E1D 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.

#262f0b, answered

What color is #262f0b?

#262f0b is a deep vivid green, closest to Dark Slate Gray (ΔE2000 19.6). It sits at 75° on the hue wheel with 62% saturation and 11% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #262f0b?

rgb(38, 47, 11) — 38 red, 47 green and 11 blue out of 255, or 14.9% / 18.4% / 4.3% by channel.

What is #262f0b in HSL and HSV?

hsl(75, 62%, 11%) and hsv(75, 77%, 18%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #262f0b a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0247 and perceived brightness is 16%, so white text on it reaches 14.06:1.

Should I use black or white text on #262f0b?

White. It scores 14.06:1 against #262f0b, versus 1.49:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #262f0b accessible on a white background?

#262f0b on white scores 14.06:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #262f0b?

#140B2F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #0B142F and #260B2F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #262f0b?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E1EDC0 for borders, #879B4B for secondary text, #0A0A30 as an accent and #546718 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2F260B and #142F0B stays calm, while #140B2F is the loudest partner.

What is #262f0b in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(19%, 0%, 77%, 82%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #262f0b warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 38 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #2F2B0B; nudged cooler, #19300A.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #262f0b?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 29.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #262f0b as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #262f0b in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#262f0b] or text-[#262f0b], 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 #262f0b with 50% opacity?

rgba(38, 47, 11, 0.5), or #262f0b80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #939785; over black, #131806.

Is #262f0b a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #333300, ΔE2000 5.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #262f0b 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 #262f0b?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #4E6117, #262f0b 45%, #546718). For more colour, a short hue run to #051605 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #262f0b in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #262f0b at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.