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#35bc06

a dark, electric green · neutral · closest name: Lime Green

Token name suggestion: Forest Fern

RGB
53, 188, 6
HSL
105°, 94%, 38%
CMYK
72, 0, 97, 26
Luminance
0.3674

#35bc06 is a dark electric green, 105° on the wheel and 56/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.35:1). As text it scores 2.52:1 on white — use #268504 instead. Nearest name is Lime Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(105 94% 38%)rgb(53 188 6)Base step 700AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #35bc06 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#35bc06
Hue
105°
green
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
38%
dark
Brightness
74%
HSV value
Perceived
58%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3674
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
56/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
8.35:1
Closest name
Lime Green
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
91.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.696
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 8.3
Web-safe
#33CC00
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue105° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness38%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #35bc06.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool56% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red2%
Green98%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#35bc06
HEX (8-digit)#35bc06ff
RGBrgb(53, 188, 6)
RGBArgba(53, 188, 6, 1)
HSLhsl(105, 94%, 38%)
HSV / HSBhsv(105, 97%, 74%)
HWBhwb(105 2% 26%)
CMYKcmyk(72%, 0%, 97%, 26%)
LABlab(67.1 -63.3 66.1)
LCHlch(67.1 91.5 133.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.696 0.225 140.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(19.48, 36.73, 6.24)
Decimal3521542
Display P3color(display-p3 0.208 0.737 0.024)
Web-safe#33CC00

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #35bc06;
background-color: #35bc06;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #35bc06;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#35bc06] bg-[#35bc06]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #35bc06;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.208, green: 0.737, blue: 0.024)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.208, green: 0.737, blue: 0.024, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#35BC06</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF35BC06)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF35BC06)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(6, 188, 53)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(53, 188, 6)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(53, 188, 6)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 53, 188, 6)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2078f, 0.7373f, 0.0235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{53,188,6}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #35bc06 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #35bc06 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#237C04, #DAEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #35bc06 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: #F5FDF2;
  --brand-100: #EAFBE4;
  --brand-200: #D0FAC2;
  --brand-300: #ADFC92;
  --brand-400: #85FA5C;
  --brand-500: #5CF826;
  --brand-600: #43ED08;
  --brand-700: #35bc06;
  --brand-800: #2D9E05;
  --brand-900: #247208;
  --brand-950: #164705;
  --brand: #35bc06;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6FAF4;
  --brand-border: #CBEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #2B9905;
  --brand-pressed: #217704;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #182414;
    --brand-ink: #DAEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FDF2',
        100: '#EAFBE4',
        200: '#D0FAC2',
        300: '#ADFC92',
        400: '#85FA5C',
        500: '#5CF826',
        600: '#43ED08',
        700: '#35bc06',
        800: '#2D9E05',
        900: '#247208',
        950: '#164705',
        DEFAULT: '#35bc06',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FDF2,
  '100': #EAFBE4,
  '200': #D0FAC2,
  '300': #ADFC92,
  '400': #85FA5C,
  '500': #5CF826,
  '600': #43ED08,
  '700': #35bc06,
  '800': #2D9E05,
  '900': #247208,
  '950': #164705,
);
$brand-base: #35bc06;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAFBE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D0FAC2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ADFC92", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#85FA5C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5CF826", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#43ED08", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#35bc06", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2D9E05", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#247208", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#164705", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #35bc06 · 8.35:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.52:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.35:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #35bc06 as text scores 2.52:1 on white and 8.35:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #237C04 at 2.11:1.

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
#268504 · 4.73:1
AA on white−11% L
#268504
The quick fox
#1C6303 · 7.41:1
AAA on white−18% L
#1C6303
The quick fox
#35bc06 · 8.35:1
AA on blackalready passes
#35bc06
The quick fox
#35bc06 · 8.35:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#35bc06

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2FA805 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
#35bc06 on white: 2.52:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#35bc06 on black: 8.35:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #35bc06 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #35bc06.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.52:1AaAa
Slate 502.40:1AaAa
Slate 1002.30:1AaAa
Slate 2002.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.69:1AaAa
Slate 4001.02:1AaAa
Slate 5001.89:1AaAa
Slate 6003.01:1AaAa
Slate 7004.12:1AaAa
Slate 8005.81:1AaAa
Slate 9007.10:1AaAa
Black8.35:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C1AA00
deuteranopia · #B29F2A
tritanopia · #11B69F

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. #35bc06 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.

#F5FDF2
#EAFBE4
#D0FAC2
#ADFC92
#85FA5C
#5CF826
#43ED08
#35bc06
#2D9E05
#247208
#164705
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F5FDF2Darkest = 950 · #164705Text 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 0.056 140.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.090 140.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.135 140.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.175 140.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.207 140.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.225 140.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.225 140.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.211 140.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.189 140.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.157 140.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.124 140.5);
}

Colors that work with #35bc06

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#F6FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#CBEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5F9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#5F02C0
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#237C04
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECFEE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#182414
Dark-mode background
Hover#2B9905
One step down in lightness
Pressed#217704
Two steps down
Disabled#8EAF83
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#37D600
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 #35bc06

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 #237C04
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2FA805

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 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
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight62/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • 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#8D06BC
Analogous left#90BC06
Analogous right#06BC32
Split-complement 1#3206BC
Split-complement 2#BC0690
Triadic 1#0635BC
Triadic 2#BC0635
Tetradic#0690BC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°105°

#35bc06 sits at 105°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red20.8%
Green73.7%
Blue2.4%
R · 0–255
53
0x35
G · 0–255
188
0xbc
B · 0–255
6
0x06

CMYK percentages

Cyan71.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow96.8%
Key (black)26.3%

Total ink coverage is 195%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#35bc06 text on a black background

contrast 8.35:1

Card sample

#35bc06 text on a white background

contrast 2.52:1

Card sample

#35bc06 on grey

2.30:1

#35bc06 on its own surface

2.38:1

#35bc06 on its dark surface

6.41:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #35bc06;
Background color
Panel with #35bc06 background
background-color: #35bc06;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #35bc06;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(53, 188, 6, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(53, 188, 6, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #35bc06;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #35bc06, #06BC50);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #35bc06, #06BC7E);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #35bc06;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #35bc06;
caret-color: #35bc06;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #35bc06;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECFEE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #35bc06;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#35bc06 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #35bc06 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(53, 188, 6, 0.5)
rgb(53 188 6 / 50%)
#35bc0680
hsl(105 94% 38% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #35bc06 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#35bc061a#EBF8E6
20%#35bc0633#D7F2CD
40%#35bc0666#AEE49B
60%#35bc0699#86D76A
80%#35bc06cc#5DC938

Gradients from #35bc06

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, #46F708, #35bc06 45%, #237C04);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #35bc06, #059E50);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #35bc06, #8D06BC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #5CF826 0%, #35bc06 45%, #237C04 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #C9ED08 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #07D94B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #237C04 0%, transparent 65%), #35bc06;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #35bc06

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.

#35bc06 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 8.35:1.

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.

#35bc06, answered

What color is #35bc06?

#35bc06 is a dark electric green, closest to Lime Green (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 105° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 38% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #35bc06?

rgb(53, 188, 6) — 53 red, 188 green and 6 blue out of 255, or 20.8% / 73.7% / 2.4% by channel.

What is #35bc06 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(105, 94%, 38%) and hsv(105, 97%, 74%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #35bc06 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3674 and perceived brightness is 58%, so black text on it reaches 8.35:1.

Should I use black or white text on #35bc06?

Black. It scores 8.35:1 against #35bc06, versus 2.52:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #35bc06 accessible on a white background?

#35bc06 on white scores 2.52:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #268504 to reach 4.5:1, or #1C6303 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #35bc06?

#8D06BC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #3206BC and #BC0690, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #35bc06?

For interface work: #F6FAF4 as the surface, #CBEDC0 for borders, #5F9B4B for secondary text, #5F02C0 as an accent and #237C04 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #90BC06 and #06BC32 stays calm, while #8D06BC is the loudest partner.

What is #35bc06 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(72%, 0%, 97%, 26%). 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 #35bc06 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 56 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #78BC06; nudged cooler, #04BE18.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #35bc06?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 8.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #35bc06 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #35bc06 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#35bc06] or text-[#35bc06], 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 #35bc06 with 50% opacity?

rgba(53, 188, 6, 0.5), or #35bc0680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #9ADE83; over black, #1B5E03.

Is #35bc06 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CC00, ΔE2000 4.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #35bc06 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 #35bc06?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #46F708, #35bc06 45%, #237C04). For more colour, a short hue run to #059E50 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #35bc06 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #35bc06 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.