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#2bae39

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Jade

RGB
43, 174, 57
HSL
126°, 60%, 43%
CMYK
75, 0, 67, 32
Luminance
0.3108

#2bae39 is a dark vivid green, 126° on the wheel and 65/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.22:1). As text it scores 2.91:1 on white — use #21852B instead. Nearest name is Medium Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(126 60% 43%)rgb(43 174 57)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #2bae39 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#2bae39
Hue
126°
green
Saturation
60%
vivid
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
68%
HSV value
Perceived
54%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3108
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
65/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
7.22:1
Closest name
Medium Sea Green
ΔE2000 8.6
Chroma
75.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.658
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 7.1
Web-safe
#339933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue126° of 360°
Saturation60%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #2bae39.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool65% 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
Red2%
Green97%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#2bae39
HEX (8-digit)#2bae39ff
RGBrgb(43, 174, 57)
RGBArgba(43, 174, 57, 1)
HSLhsl(126, 60%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(126, 75%, 68%)
HWBhwb(126 17% 32%)
CMYKcmyk(75%, 0%, 67%, 32%)
LABlab(62.6 -57.7 48.4)
LCHlch(62.6 75.3 140.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.658 0.192 144.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(16.87, 31.08, 8.98)
Decimal2862649
Display P3color(display-p3 0.169 0.682 0.224)
Web-safe#339933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #2bae39;
background-color: #2bae39;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #2bae39;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#2bae39] bg-[#2bae39]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #2bae39;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.169, green: 0.682, blue: 0.224)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.169, green: 0.682, blue: 0.224, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#2BAE39</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF2BAE39)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF2BAE39)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(57, 174, 43)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(43, 174, 57)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(43, 174, 57)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 43, 174, 57)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1686f, 0.6824f, 0.2235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{43,174,57}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #2bae39 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #2bae39 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#196621, #D3EED6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #2bae39 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: #F4FBF5;
  --brand-100: #E8F7EA;
  --brand-200: #CCEFD0;
  --brand-300: #A5E9AC;
  --brand-400: #78DE83;
  --brand-500: #4BD359;
  --brand-600: #30C440;
  --brand-700: #2bae39;
  --brand-800: #20832B;
  --brand-900: #1B5F22;
  --brand-950: #113C16;
  --brand: #2bae39;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C0EDC5;
  --brand-hover: #249130;
  --brand-pressed: #1D7526;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142415;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBF5',
        100: '#E8F7EA',
        200: '#CCEFD0',
        300: '#A5E9AC',
        400: '#78DE83',
        500: '#4BD359',
        600: '#30C440',
        700: '#2bae39',
        800: '#20832B',
        900: '#1B5F22',
        950: '#113C16',
        DEFAULT: '#2bae39',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBF5,
  '100': #E8F7EA,
  '200': #CCEFD0,
  '300': #A5E9AC,
  '400': #78DE83,
  '500': #4BD359,
  '600': #30C440,
  '700': #2bae39,
  '800': #20832B,
  '900': #1B5F22,
  '950': #113C16,
);
$brand-base: #2bae39;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F7EA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCEFD0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A5E9AC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#78DE83", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4BD359", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#30C440", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2bae39", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#20832B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1B5F22", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#113C16", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #2bae39 · 7.22:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.91:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.22:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #2bae39 as text scores 2.91:1 on white and 7.22:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #196621 at 2.43:1.

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
#21852B · 4.71:1
AA on white−10% L
#21852B
The quick fox
#196421 · 7.28:1
AAA on white−18% L
#196421
The quick fox
#2bae39 · 7.22:1
AA on blackalready passes
#2bae39
The quick fox
#2bae39 · 7.22:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#2bae39

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2AAA38 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
#2bae39 on white: 2.91:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#2bae39 on black: 7.22:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #2bae39 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #2bae39.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.91:1AaAa
Slate 502.78:1AaAa
Slate 1002.66:1AaAa
Slate 2002.36:1AaAa
Slate 3001.96:1AaAa
Slate 4001.13:1AaAa
Slate 5001.64:1AaAa
Slate 6002.60:1AaAa
Slate 7003.56:1AaAa
Slate 8005.03:1AaAa
Slate 9006.13:1AaAa
Black7.22:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B19E29
deuteranopia · #A39344
tritanopia · #00A996

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. #2bae39 is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4FBF5
#E8F7EA
#CCEFD0
#A5E9AC
#78DE83
#4BD359
#30C440
#2bae39
#20832B
#1B5F22
#113C16
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F4FBF5Darkest = 950 · #113C16Text 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 0.048 144.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.077 144.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.115 144.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.150 144.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.177 144.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.192 144.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.192 144.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.180 144.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.161 144.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.134 144.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.106 144.4);
}

Colors that work with #2bae39

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#F4FAF5
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDC5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B53
Captions on the surface
Accent#9E27B2
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#196621
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFAEC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142415
Dark-mode background
Hover#249130
One step down in lightness
Pressed#1D7526
Two steps down
Disabled#91B895
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#23CA35
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 #2bae39

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
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #196621
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2AAA38

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
  • Weight58/100
  • 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#AE2BA0
Analogous left#5EAE2B
Analogous right#2BAE7A
Split-complement 1#7A2BAE
Split-complement 2#AE2B5E
Triadic 1#392BAE
Triadic 2#AE392B
Tetradic#2B5EAE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°126°

#2bae39 sits at 126°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red16.9%
Green68.2%
Blue22.4%
R · 0–255
43
0x2b
G · 0–255
174
0xae
B · 0–255
57
0x39

CMYK percentages

Cyan75.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow67.2%
Key (black)31.8%

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

Color previews

#2bae39 text on a black background

contrast 7.22:1

Card sample

#2bae39 text on a white background

contrast 2.91:1

Card sample

#2bae39 on grey

2.66:1

#2bae39 on its own surface

2.75:1

#2bae39 on its dark surface

5.58:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #2bae39;
Background color
Panel with #2bae39 background
background-color: #2bae39;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #2bae39;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(43, 174, 57, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(43, 174, 57, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #2bae39;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2bae39, #2BAE90);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2bae39, #2BABAE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #2bae39;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #2bae39;
caret-color: #2bae39;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #2bae39;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFAEC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #2bae39;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#2bae39 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #2bae39 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(43, 174, 57, 0.5)
rgb(43 174 57 / 50%)
#2bae3980
hsl(126 60% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #2bae39 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#2bae391a#EAF7EB
20%#2bae3933#D5EFD7
40%#2bae3966#AADFB0
60%#2bae3999#80CE88
80%#2bae39cc#55BE61

Gradients from #2bae39

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, #45D154, #2bae39 45%, #196621);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #2bae39, #259585);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2bae39, #AE2BA0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #5DD76A 0%, #2bae39 45%, #196621 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #82CF3D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #31C698 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #196621 0%, transparent 65%), #2bae39;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #2bae39

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.

#2bae39 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 7.22:1.

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.

#2bae39, answered

What color is #2bae39?

#2bae39 is a dark vivid green, closest to Medium Sea Green (ΔE2000 8.6). It sits at 126° on the hue wheel with 60% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #2bae39?

rgb(43, 174, 57) — 43 red, 174 green and 57 blue out of 255, or 16.9% / 68.2% / 22.4% by channel.

What is #2bae39 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(126, 60%, 43%) and hsv(126, 75%, 68%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #2bae39 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3108 and perceived brightness is 54%, so black text on it reaches 7.22:1.

Should I use black or white text on #2bae39?

Black. It scores 7.22:1 against #2bae39, versus 2.91:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #2bae39 accessible on a white background?

#2bae39 on white scores 2.91:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #21852B to reach 4.5:1, or #196421 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #2bae39?

#AE2BA0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #7A2BAE and #AE2B5E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #2bae39?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C0EDC5 for borders, #4B9B53 for secondary text, #9E27B2 as an accent and #196621 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #5EAE2B and #2BAE7A stays calm, while #AE2BA0 is the loudest partner.

What is #2bae39 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(75%, 0%, 67%, 32%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #2bae39 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 65 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #4DAE2B; nudged cooler, #29B069.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #2bae39?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 7.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #2bae39 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #2bae39 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#2bae39] or text-[#2bae39], 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 #2bae39 with 50% opacity?

rgba(43, 174, 57, 0.5), or #2bae3980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #95D79C; over black, #16571D.

Is #2bae39 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #339933, ΔE2000 6.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #2bae39 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 #2bae39?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #45D154, #2bae39 45%, #196621). For more colour, a short hue run to #259585 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #2bae39 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #2bae39 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.