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#2ac54e

a balanced, vivid green · cool · closest name: Lime Green

Token name suggestion: Signal Moss

RGB
42, 197, 78
HSL
134°, 65%, 47%
CMYK
79, 0, 60, 23
Luminance
0.4097

#2ac54e is a balanced vivid green, 134° on the wheel and 68/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.19:1). As text it scores 2.28:1 on white — use #1D8635 instead. Nearest name is Lime Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(134 65% 47%)rgb(42 197 78)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #2ac54e is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#2ac54e
Hue
134°
green
Saturation
65%
vivid
Lightness
47%
balanced
Brightness
77%
HSV value
Perceived
61%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4097
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
68/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
9.19:1
Closest name
Lime Green
ΔE2000 4.2
Chroma
79.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.722
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 2.4
Web-safe
#33CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue134° of 360°
Saturation65%
Lightness47%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #2ac54e.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool68% 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%
Green97%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#2ac54e
HEX (8-digit)#2ac54eff
RGBrgb(42, 197, 78)
RGBArgba(42, 197, 78, 1)
HSLhsl(134, 65%, 47%)
HSV / HSBhsv(134, 79%, 77%)
HWBhwb(134 16% 23%)
CMYKcmyk(79%, 0%, 60%, 23%)
LABlab(70.2 -63.0 47.8)
LCHlch(70.2 79.0 142.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.722 0.203 146.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(22.29, 40.97, 13.94)
Decimal2803022
Display P3color(display-p3 0.165 0.773 0.306)
Web-safe#33CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #2ac54e;
background-color: #2ac54e;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #2ac54e;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#2ac54e] bg-[#2ac54e]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #2ac54e;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.165, green: 0.773, blue: 0.306)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.165, green: 0.773, blue: 0.306, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#2AC54E</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF2AC54E)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF2AC54E)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(78, 197, 42)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(42, 197, 78)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(42, 197, 78)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 42, 197, 78)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1647f, 0.7725f, 0.3059f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{42,197,78}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #2ac54e 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #2ac54e 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#16692A, #D3EED9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #2ac54e 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: #F3FBF5;
  --brand-100: #E8F7EC;
  --brand-200: #CBF1D4;
  --brand-300: #A2EBB3;
  --brand-400: #74E18E;
  --brand-500: #46D868;
  --brand-600: #2ac54e;
  --brand-700: #24A842;
  --brand-800: #1D8735;
  --brand-900: #19622A;
  --brand-950: #0F3D1A;
  --brand: #2ac54e;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C0EDCA;
  --brand-hover: #24A842;
  --brand-pressed: #1D8A37;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142418;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FBF5',
        100: '#E8F7EC',
        200: '#CBF1D4',
        300: '#A2EBB3',
        400: '#74E18E',
        500: '#46D868',
        600: '#2ac54e',
        700: '#24A842',
        800: '#1D8735',
        900: '#19622A',
        950: '#0F3D1A',
        DEFAULT: '#2ac54e',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FBF5,
  '100': #E8F7EC,
  '200': #CBF1D4,
  '300': #A2EBB3,
  '400': #74E18E,
  '500': #46D868,
  '600': #2ac54e,
  '700': #24A842,
  '800': #1D8735,
  '900': #19622A,
  '950': #0F3D1A,
);
$brand-base: #2ac54e;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FBF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F7EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CBF1D4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A2EBB3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#74E18E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#46D868", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2ac54e", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#24A842", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1D8735", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#19622A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F3D1A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #2ac54e · 9.19:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.28:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.19:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #2ac54e as text scores 2.28:1 on white and 9.19:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #16692A at 2.98:1.

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
#1D8635 · 4.65:1
AA on white−15% L
#1D8635
The quick fox
#156428 · 7.28:1
AAA on white−23% L
#156428
The quick fox
#2ac54e · 9.19:1
AA on blackalready passes
#2ac54e
The quick fox
#2ac54e · 9.19:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#2ac54e

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #24A842 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
#2ac54e on white: 2.28:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#2ac54e on black: 9.19:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #2ac54e as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #2ac54e.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.28:1AaAa
Slate 502.18:1AaAa
Slate 1002.08:1AaAa
Slate 2001.85:1AaAa
Slate 3001.54:1AaAa
Slate 4001.12:1AaAa
Slate 5002.08:1AaAa
Slate 6003.32:1AaAa
Slate 7004.53:1AaAa
Slate 8006.41:1AaAa
Slate 9007.82:1AaAa
Black9.19:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C8B341
deuteranopia · #B7A758
tritanopia · #00C0AB

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. #2ac54e is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FBF5
#E8F7EC
#CBF1D4
#A2EBB3
#74E18E
#46D868
#2ac54e
#24A842
#1D8735
#19622A
#0F3D1A
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F3FBF5Darkest = 950 · #0F3D1AText step on white = 800
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 0.051 146.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.081 146.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.122 146.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.159 146.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.187 146.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.203 146.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.203 146.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.191 146.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.171 146.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.142 146.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.112 146.5);
}

Colors that work with #2ac54e

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#F4FAF6
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDCA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B5D
Captions on the surface
Accent#C725CA
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#16692A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFBEE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142418
Dark-mode background
Hover#24A842
One step down in lightness
Pressed#1D8A37
Two steps down
Disabled#9EC1A6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#24E04F
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 #2ac54e

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 #16692A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #24A842

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight53/100
  • 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#C52AA1
Analogous left#54C52A
Analogous right#2AC59C
Split-complement 1#9C2AC5
Split-complement 2#C52A54
Triadic 1#4E2AC5
Triadic 2#C54E2A
Tetradic#2A54C5
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°134°

#2ac54e sits at 134°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red16.5%
Green77.3%
Blue30.6%
R · 0–255
42
0x2a
G · 0–255
197
0xc5
B · 0–255
78
0x4e

CMYK percentages

Cyan78.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow60.4%
Key (black)22.7%

Total ink coverage is 162%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#2ac54e text on a black background

contrast 9.19:1

Card sample

#2ac54e text on a white background

contrast 2.28:1

Card sample

#2ac54e on grey

2.08:1

#2ac54e on its own surface

2.16:1

#2ac54e on its dark surface

7.10:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #2ac54e;
Background color
Panel with #2ac54e background
background-color: #2ac54e;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #2ac54e;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(42, 197, 78, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(42, 197, 78, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #2ac54e;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2ac54e, #2AC5B5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2ac54e, #2AAEC5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #2ac54e;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #2ac54e;
caret-color: #2ac54e;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #2ac54e;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFBEE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #2ac54e;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#2ac54e 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #2ac54e 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(42, 197, 78, 0.5)
rgb(42 197 78 / 50%)
#2ac54e80
hsl(134 65% 47% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #2ac54e 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#2ac54e1a#EAF9ED
20%#2ac54e33#D4F3DC
40%#2ac54e66#AAE8B8
60%#2ac54e99#7FDC95
80%#2ac54ecc#55D171

Gradients from #2ac54e

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, #52DA72, #2ac54e 45%, #16692A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #2ac54e, #25ACAA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2ac54e, #C52AA1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #6BE086 0%, #2ac54e 45%, #16692A 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%, #7CD84A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #39D5B8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #16692A 0%, transparent 65%), #2ac54e;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #2ac54e

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.

#2ac54e 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 9.19:1.

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.

#2ac54e, answered

What color is #2ac54e?

#2ac54e is a balanced vivid green, closest to Lime Green (ΔE2000 4.2). It sits at 134° on the hue wheel with 65% saturation and 47% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #2ac54e?

rgb(42, 197, 78) — 42 red, 197 green and 78 blue out of 255, or 16.5% / 77.3% / 30.6% by channel.

What is #2ac54e in HSL and HSV?

hsl(134, 65%, 47%) and hsv(134, 79%, 77%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #2ac54e a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4097 and perceived brightness is 61%, so black text on it reaches 9.19:1.

Should I use black or white text on #2ac54e?

Black. It scores 9.19:1 against #2ac54e, versus 2.28:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #2ac54e accessible on a white background?

#2ac54e on white scores 2.28:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1D8635 to reach 4.5:1, or #156428 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #2ac54e?

#C52AA1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9C2AC5 and #C52A54, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #2ac54e?

For interface work: #F4FAF6 as the surface, #C0EDCA for borders, #4B9B5D for secondary text, #C725CA as an accent and #16692A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #54C52A and #2AC59C stays calm, while #C52AA1 is the loudest partner.

What is #2ac54e in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(79%, 0%, 60%, 23%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #2ac54e warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 68 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #3FC52A; nudged cooler, #28C887.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #2ac54e?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 2.4 away. That is close enough to swap in without anyone noticing.

How do I use #2ac54e in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#2ac54e] or text-[#2ac54e], 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 #2ac54e with 50% opacity?

rgba(42, 197, 78, 0.5), or #2ac54e80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #95E2A7; over black, #156327.

Is #2ac54e a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CC66, ΔE2000 3.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #2ac54e 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 #2ac54e?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #52DA72, #2ac54e 45%, #16692A). For more colour, a short hue run to #25ACAA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #2ac54e in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #2ac54e at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.