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#33ff1c

a balanced, electric green · cool · “Lime”

Token name suggestion: True Basil

RGB
51, 255, 28
HSL
114°, 100%, 56%
CMYK
80, 0, 89, 0
Luminance
0.7231

#33ff1c is a balanced electric green, 114° on the wheel and 60/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.46:1). As text it scores 1.36:1 on white — use #0E8700 instead. Nearest name is Lime, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(114 100% 56%)rgb(51 255 28)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #33ff1c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#33ff1c
Hue
114°
green
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
56%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
77%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7231
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
60/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.46:1
Closest name
Lime
ΔE2000 0.8
Chroma
115.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.871
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 12.9
Web-safe
#33FF33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue114° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness56%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #33ff1c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool60% 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%
Green99%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#33ff1c
HEX (8-digit)#33ff1cff
RGBrgb(51, 255, 28)
RGBArgba(51, 255, 28, 1)
HSLhsl(114, 100%, 56%)
HSV / HSBhsv(114, 89%, 100%)
HWBhwb(114 11% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(80%, 0%, 89%, 0%)
LABlab(88.1 -82.6 80.8)
LCHlch(88.1 115.6 135.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.871 0.286 141.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(37.33, 72.30, 13.09)
Decimal3407644
Display P3color(display-p3 0.200 1.000 0.110)
Web-safe#33FF33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #33ff1c;
background-color: #33ff1c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #33ff1c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#33ff1c] bg-[#33ff1c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #33ff1c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.200, green: 1.000, blue: 0.110)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.200, green: 1.000, blue: 0.110, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#33FF1C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF33FF1C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF33FF1C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(28, 255, 51)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(51, 255, 28)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(51, 255, 28)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 51, 255, 28)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2000f, 1.0000f, 0.1098f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{51,255,28}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #33ff1c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #33ff1c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0D8000, #D5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #33ff1c 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: #F2FEF1;
  --brand-100: #E6FCE3;
  --brand-200: #C6FCC0;
  --brand-300: #9AFF8F;
  --brand-400: #68FF57;
  --brand-500: #33ff1c;
  --brand-600: #19F500;
  --brand-700: #15CC00;
  --brand-800: #11A300;
  --brand-900: #107605;
  --brand-950: #0A4903;
  --brand: #33ff1c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C4EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #19F700;
  --brand-pressed: #16D400;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #152414;
    --brand-ink: #D5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FEF1',
        100: '#E6FCE3',
        200: '#C6FCC0',
        300: '#9AFF8F',
        400: '#68FF57',
        500: '#33ff1c',
        600: '#19F500',
        700: '#15CC00',
        800: '#11A300',
        900: '#107605',
        950: '#0A4903',
        DEFAULT: '#33ff1c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FEF1,
  '100': #E6FCE3,
  '200': #C6FCC0,
  '300': #9AFF8F,
  '400': #68FF57,
  '500': #33ff1c,
  '600': #19F500,
  '700': #15CC00,
  '800': #11A300,
  '900': #107605,
  '950': #0A4903,
);
$brand-base: #33ff1c;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FEF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E6FCE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C6FCC0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9AFF8F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#68FF57", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#33ff1c", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#19F500", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#15CC00", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#11A300", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#107605", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0A4903", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #33ff1c · 15.46:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.36:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.46:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #33ff1c as text scores 1.36:1 on white and 15.46:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0D8000 at 3.77:1.

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
#0E8700 · 4.68:1
AA on white−29% L
#0E8700
The quick fox
#0A6300 · 7.51:1
AAA on white−36% L
#0A6300
The quick fox
#33ff1c · 15.46:1
AA on blackalready passes
#33ff1c
The quick fox
#33ff1c · 15.46:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#33ff1c

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #11AB00 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
#33ff1c on white: 1.36:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#33ff1c on black: 15.46:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #33ff1c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #33ff1c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.36:1AaAa
Slate 501.30:1AaAa
Slate 1001.24:1AaAa
Slate 2001.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.09:1AaAa
Slate 4001.89:1AaAa
Slate 5003.50:1AaAa
Slate 6005.58:1AaAa
Slate 7007.62:1AaAa
Slate 80010.77:1AaAa
Slate 90013.14:1AaAa
Black15.46:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFE600
deuteranopia · #F0D742
tritanopia · #00F7D9

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. #33ff1c 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.

#F2FEF1
#E6FCE3
#C6FCC0
#9AFF8F
#68FF57
#33ff1c
#19F500
#15CC00
#11A300
#107605
#0A4903
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F2FEF1Darkest = 950 · #0A4903Text 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 0.071 141.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.114 141.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.171 141.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.223 141.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.263 141.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.286 141.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.286 141.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.268 141.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.240 141.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.200 141.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.157 141.9);
}

Colors that work with #33ff1c

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#F5FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C4EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#539B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#AF1CFF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0D8000
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E8FFE5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#152414
Dark-mode background
Hover#19F700
One step down in lightness
Pressed#16D400
Two steps down
Disabled#BCD2B9
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#45FF30
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 #33ff1c

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 #0D8000
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #11AB00

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
  • Weight45/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

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#E81CFF
Analogous left#A5FF1C
Analogous right#1CFF76
Split-complement 1#761CFF
Split-complement 2#FF1CA5
Triadic 1#1C33FF
Triadic 2#FF1C33
Tetradic#1CA5FF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°114°

#33ff1c sits at 114°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red20.0%
Green100.0%
Blue11.0%
R · 0–255
51
0x33
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
28
0x1c

CMYK percentages

Cyan80.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow89.0%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 169%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#33ff1c text on a black background

contrast 15.46:1

Card sample

#33ff1c text on a white background

contrast 1.36:1

Card sample

#33ff1c on grey

1.24:1

#33ff1c on its own surface

1.28:1

#33ff1c on its dark surface

11.95:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #33ff1c;
Background color
Panel with #33ff1c background
background-color: #33ff1c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #33ff1c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(51, 255, 28, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(51, 255, 28, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #33ff1c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #33ff1c, #1CFF9C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #33ff1c, #1CFFD5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #33ff1c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #33ff1c;
caret-color: #33ff1c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #33ff1c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E8FFE5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #33ff1c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#33ff1c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #33ff1c 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(51, 255, 28, 0.5)
rgb(51 255 28 / 50%)
#33ff1c80
hsl(114 100% 56% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #33ff1c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#33ff1c1a#EBFFE8
20%#33ff1c33#D6FFD2
40%#33ff1c66#ADFFA4
60%#33ff1c99#85FF77
80%#33ff1ccc#5CFF49

Gradients from #33ff1c

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, #6AFF59, #33ff1c 45%, #0D8000);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #33ff1c, #00FCA4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #33ff1c, #E81CFF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #86FF78 0%, #33ff1c 45%, #0D8000 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #C8FF4F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #3BFF99 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0D8000 0%, transparent 65%), #33ff1c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #33ff1c

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.

#33ff1c 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 15.46:1.

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.

#33ff1c, answered

What color is #33ff1c?

#33ff1c is a balanced electric green — the CSS keyword Lime. It sits at 114° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 56% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #33ff1c?

rgb(51, 255, 28) — 51 red, 255 green and 28 blue out of 255, or 20% / 100% / 11% by channel.

What is #33ff1c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(114, 100%, 56%) and hsv(114, 89%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #33ff1c a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7231 and perceived brightness is 77%, so black text on it reaches 15.46:1.

Should I use black or white text on #33ff1c?

Black. It scores 15.46:1 against #33ff1c, versus 1.36:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #33ff1c accessible on a white background?

#33ff1c on white scores 1.36:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0E8700 to reach 4.5:1, or #0A6300 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #33ff1c?

#E81CFF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #761CFF and #FF1CA5, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #33ff1c?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C4EDC0 for borders, #539B4B for secondary text, #AF1CFF as an accent and #0D8000 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #A5FF1C and #1CFF76 stays calm, while #E81CFF is the loudest partner.

What is #33ff1c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(80%, 0%, 89%, 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 #33ff1c warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 60 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #86FF1C; nudged cooler, #1CFF58.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #33ff1c?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 12.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #33ff1c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #33ff1c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#33ff1c] or text-[#33ff1c], 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 #33ff1c with 50% opacity?

rgba(51, 255, 28, 0.5), or #33ff1c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #99FF8E; over black, #1A800E.

Is #33ff1c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FF33, ΔE2000 1.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #33ff1c 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 #33ff1c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #6AFF59, #33ff1c 45%, #0D8000). For more colour, a short hue run to #00FCA4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #33ff1c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #33ff1c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.