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#32c461

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

Token name suggestion: Studio Fern

RGB
50, 196, 97
HSL
139°, 59%, 48%
CMYK
75, 0, 51, 23
Luminance
0.4102

#32c461 is a balanced vivid green, 139° on the wheel and 71/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.20:1). As text it scores 2.28:1 on white — use #228743 instead. Nearest name is Medium Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(139 59% 48%)rgb(50 196 97)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #32c461 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#32c461
Hue
139°
green
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
48%
balanced
Brightness
77%
HSV value
Perceived
61%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4102
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
71/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
9.20:1
Closest name
Medium Sea Green
ΔE2000 6.6
Chroma
70.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.723
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 0.7
Web-safe
#33CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue139° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness48%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #32c461.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool71% 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%
Green96%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#32c461
HEX (8-digit)#32c461ff
RGBrgb(50, 196, 97)
RGBArgba(50, 196, 97, 1)
HSLhsl(139, 59%, 48%)
HSV / HSBhsv(139, 74%, 77%)
HWBhwb(139 20% 23%)
CMYKcmyk(75%, 0%, 51%, 23%)
LABlab(70.2 -59.0 38.8)
LCHlch(70.2 70.6 146.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.723 0.184 149.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(23.21, 41.02, 18.00)
Decimal3327073
Display P3color(display-p3 0.196 0.769 0.380)
Web-safe#33CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #32c461;
background-color: #32c461;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #32c461;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#32c461] bg-[#32c461]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #32c461;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.196, green: 0.769, blue: 0.380)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.196, green: 0.769, blue: 0.380, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#32C461</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF32C461)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF32C461)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(97, 196, 50)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(50, 196, 97)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(50, 196, 97)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 50, 196, 97)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1961f, 0.7686f, 0.3804f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{50,196,97}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #32c461 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #32c461 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1A6632, #D3EEDB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #32c461 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: #F4FBF6;
  --brand-100: #E9F7ED;
  --brand-200: #CDEFD8;
  --brand-300: #A6E8BB;
  --brand-400: #79DD99;
  --brand-500: #4CD177;
  --brand-600: #32c461;
  --brand-700: #2AA250;
  --brand-800: #218240;
  --brand-900: #1C5F31;
  --brand-950: #113B1F;
  --brand: #32c461;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C0EDCE;
  --brand-hover: #2BA753;
  --brand-pressed: #238B45;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142419;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBF6',
        100: '#E9F7ED',
        200: '#CDEFD8',
        300: '#A6E8BB',
        400: '#79DD99',
        500: '#4CD177',
        600: '#32c461',
        700: '#2AA250',
        800: '#218240',
        900: '#1C5F31',
        950: '#113B1F',
        DEFAULT: '#32c461',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBF6,
  '100': #E9F7ED,
  '200': #CDEFD8,
  '300': #A6E8BB,
  '400': #79DD99,
  '500': #4CD177,
  '600': #32c461,
  '700': #2AA250,
  '800': #218240,
  '900': #1C5F31,
  '950': #113B1F,
);
$brand-base: #32c461;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBF6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F7ED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CDEFD8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A6E8BB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#79DD99", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4CD177", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#32c461", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2AA250", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#218240", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1C5F31", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#113B1F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #32c461 · 9.20:1
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 · 9.20:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #32c461 as text scores 2.28:1 on white and 9.20:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1A6632 at 3.08:1.

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
#228743 · 4.55:1
AA on white−15% L
#228743
The quick fox
#1A6633 · 7.02:1
AAA on white−23% L
#1A6633
The quick fox
#32c461 · 9.20:1
AA on blackalready passes
#32c461
The quick fox
#32c461 · 9.20:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#32c461

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2BA753 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
#32c461 on white: 2.28:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#32c461 on black: 9.20:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #32c461 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #32c461.

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 5002.09:1AaAa
Slate 6003.32:1AaAa
Slate 7004.54:1AaAa
Slate 8006.41:1AaAa
Slate 9007.82:1AaAa
Black9.20:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C5B359
deuteranopia · #B5A768
tritanopia · #00C0AD

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. #32c461 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.

#F4FBF6
#E9F7ED
#CDEFD8
#A6E8BB
#79DD99
#4CD177
#32c461
#2AA250
#218240
#1C5F31
#113B1F
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F4FBF6Darkest = 950 · #113B1FText 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 0.046 149.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.074 149.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.111 149.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.144 149.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.170 149.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.184 149.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.184 149.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.173 149.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.155 149.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.129 149.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.101 149.3);
}

Colors that work with #32c461

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#C0EDCE
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B64
Captions on the surface
Accent#C92DBE
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1A6632
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFAF0
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142419
Dark-mode background
Hover#2BA753
One step down in lightness
Pressed#238B45
Two steps down
Disabled#A2C4AD
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#31DA67
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 #32c461

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 #1A6632
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2BA753

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
  • Weight52/100
  • 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#C43295
Analogous left#4CC432
Analogous right#32C4AA
Split-complement 1#AA32C4
Split-complement 2#C4324C
Triadic 1#6132C4
Triadic 2#C46132
Tetradic#324CC4
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°139°

#32c461 sits at 139°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red19.6%
Green76.9%
Blue38.0%
R · 0–255
50
0x32
G · 0–255
196
0xc4
B · 0–255
97
0x61

CMYK percentages

Cyan74.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow50.5%
Key (black)23.1%

Total ink coverage is 148%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#32c461 text on a black background

contrast 9.20:1

Card sample

#32c461 text on a white background

contrast 2.28:1

Card sample

#32c461 on grey

2.08:1

#32c461 on its own surface

2.16:1

#32c461 on its dark surface

7.10:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #32c461;
Background color
Panel with #32c461 background
background-color: #32c461;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #32c461;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(50, 196, 97, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(50, 196, 97, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #32c461;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #32c461, #32C4C2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #32c461, #32A1C4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #32c461;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #32c461;
caret-color: #32c461;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #32c461;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFAF0;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #32c461;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#32c461 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #32c461 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(50, 196, 97, 0.5)
rgb(50 196 97 / 50%)
#32c46180
hsl(139 59% 48% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #32c461 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#32c4611a#EBF9EF
20%#32c46133#D6F3DF
40%#32c46166#ADE7C0
60%#32c46199#84DCA0
80%#32c461cc#5BD081

Gradients from #32c461

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, #5DD684, #32c461 45%, #1A6632);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #32c461, #2CA2AB);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #32c461, #C43295);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #76DC97 0%, #32c461 45%, #1A6632 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%, #76D455 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #45CFC2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1A6632 0%, transparent 65%), #32c461;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #32c461

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.

#32c461 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 9.20:1.

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.

#32c461, answered

What color is #32c461?

#32c461 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Medium Sea Green (ΔE2000 6.6). It sits at 139° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 48% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #32c461?

rgb(50, 196, 97) — 50 red, 196 green and 97 blue out of 255, or 19.6% / 76.9% / 38% by channel.

What is #32c461 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(139, 59%, 48%) and hsv(139, 74%, 77%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #32c461 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4102 and perceived brightness is 61%, so black text on it reaches 9.20:1.

Should I use black or white text on #32c461?

Black. It scores 9.20:1 against #32c461, versus 2.28:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #32c461 accessible on a white background?

#32c461 on white scores 2.28:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #228743 to reach 4.5:1, or #1A6633 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #32c461?

#C43295 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #AA32C4 and #C4324C, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #32c461?

For interface work: #F4FAF6 as the surface, #C0EDCE for borders, #4B9B64 for secondary text, #C92DBE as an accent and #1A6632 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #4CC432 and #32C4AA stays calm, while #C43295 is the loudest partner.

What is #32c461 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(75%, 0%, 51%, 23%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #32c461 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 71 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #39C432; nudged cooler, #30C697.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #32c461?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 0.7 away. That is close enough to swap in without anyone noticing.

How do I use #32c461 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#32c461] or text-[#32c461], 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 #32c461 with 50% opacity?

rgba(50, 196, 97, 0.5), or #32c46180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #99E2B0; over black, #196231.

Is #32c461 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CC66, ΔE2000 2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #32c461 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 #32c461?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #5DD684, #32c461 45%, #1A6632). For more colour, a short hue run to #2CA2AB keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #32c461 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #32c461 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.