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#39f092

a balanced, electric green · cool · closest name: Medium Spring Green

Token name suggestion: Signal Fern

RGB
57, 240, 146
HSL
149°, 86%, 58%
CMYK
76, 0, 39, 6
Luminance
0.6527

#39f092 is a balanced electric green, 149° on the wheel and 75/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.05:1). As text it scores 1.49:1 on white — use #0A8646 instead. Nearest name is Medium Spring Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(149 86% 58%)rgb(57 240 146)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #39f092 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#39f092
Hue
149°
green
Saturation
86%
electric
Lightness
58%
balanced
Brightness
94%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6527
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
75/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
14.05:1
Closest name
Medium Spring Green
ΔE2000 2.3
Chroma
73.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.845
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 10.7
Web-safe
#33FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue149° of 360°
Saturation86%
Lightness58%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #39f092.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool75% 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%
Green95%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#39f092
HEX (8-digit)#39f092ff
RGBrgb(57, 240, 146)
RGBArgba(57, 240, 146, 1)
HSLhsl(149, 86%, 58%)
HSV / HSBhsv(149, 76%, 94%)
HWBhwb(149 22% 6%)
CMYKcmyk(76%, 0%, 39%, 6%)
LABlab(84.6 -65.3 32.9)
LCHlch(84.6 73.1 153.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.845 0.194 155.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(38.03, 65.26, 37.78)
Decimal3797138
Display P3color(display-p3 0.224 0.941 0.573)
Web-safe#33FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #39f092;
background-color: #39f092;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #39f092;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#39f092] bg-[#39f092]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #39f092;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.224, green: 0.941, blue: 0.573)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.224, green: 0.941, blue: 0.573, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#39F092</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF39F092)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF39F092)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(146, 240, 57)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(57, 240, 146)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(57, 240, 146)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 57, 240, 146)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2235f, 0.9412f, 0.5725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{57,240,146}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #39f092 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #39f092 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#09773E, #D3EEE0);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #39f092 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: #F2FDF7;
  --brand-100: #E5FAEF;
  --brand-200: #C5F7DD;
  --brand-300: #97F7C6;
  --brand-400: #63F3A9;
  --brand-500: #39f092;
  --brand-600: #11E478;
  --brand-700: #0EBE64;
  --brand-800: #0C9850;
  --brand-900: #0D6E3C;
  --brand-950: #084425;
  --brand: #39f092;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD6;
  --brand-hover: #18ED80;
  --brand-pressed: #10D26E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241C;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE0;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDF7',
        100: '#E5FAEF',
        200: '#C5F7DD',
        300: '#97F7C6',
        400: '#63F3A9',
        500: '#39f092',
        600: '#11E478',
        700: '#0EBE64',
        800: '#0C9850',
        900: '#0D6E3C',
        950: '#084425',
        DEFAULT: '#39f092',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDF7,
  '100': #E5FAEF,
  '200': #C5F7DD,
  '300': #97F7C6,
  '400': #63F3A9,
  '500': #39f092,
  '600': #11E478,
  '700': #0EBE64,
  '800': #0C9850,
  '900': #0D6E3C,
  '950': #084425,
);
$brand-base: #39f092;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDF7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FAEF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C5F7DD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#97F7C6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#63F3A9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#39f092", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#11E478", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0EBE64", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0C9850", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0D6E3C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#084425", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #39f092 · 14.05:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.49:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.05:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #39f092 as text scores 1.49:1 on white and 14.05:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #09773E at 3.78:1.

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
#0A8646 · 4.65:1
AA on white−30% L
#0A8646
The quick fox
#086435 · 7.28:1
AAA on white−37% L
#086435
The quick fox
#39f092 · 14.05:1
AA on blackalready passes
#39f092
The quick fox
#39f092 · 14.05:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#39f092

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0DA758 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
#39f092 on white: 1.49:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#39f092 on black: 14.05:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #39f092 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #39f092.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.49:1AaAa
Slate 501.43:1AaAa
Slate 1001.36:1AaAa
Slate 2001.21:1AaAa
Slate 3001.01:1AaAa
Slate 4001.72:1AaAa
Slate 5003.18:1AaAa
Slate 6005.07:1AaAa
Slate 7006.93:1AaAa
Slate 8009.79:1AaAa
Slate 90011.95:1AaAa
Black14.05:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFDC8C
deuteranopia · #DACD98
tritanopia · #00EDD8

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. #39f092 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.

#F2FDF7
#E5FAEF
#C5F7DD
#97F7C6
#63F3A9
#39f092
#11E478
#0EBE64
#0C9850
#0D6E3C
#084425
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F2FDF7Darkest = 950 · #084425Text 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 0.049 155.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.078 155.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.116 155.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.151 155.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.179 155.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.194 155.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.194 155.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.182 155.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.163 155.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.136 155.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.107 155.0);
}

Colors that work with #39f092

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#F4FAF7
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDD6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B72
Captions on the surface
Accent#F435C7
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#09773E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FDF2
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241C
Dark-mode background
Hover#18ED80
One step down in lightness
Pressed#10D26E
Two steps down
Disabled#C1D8CC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#42FB9C
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 #39f092

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 #09773E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0DA758

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
  • Weight42/100
  • 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#F03997
Analogous left#3BF039
Analogous right#39F0EE
Split-complement 1#EE39F0
Split-complement 2#F0393B
Triadic 1#9239F0
Triadic 2#F09239
Tetradic#393BF0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°149°

#39f092 sits at 149°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red22.4%
Green94.1%
Blue57.3%
R · 0–255
57
0x39
G · 0–255
240
0xf0
B · 0–255
146
0x92

CMYK percentages

Cyan76.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow39.2%
Key (black)5.9%

Total ink coverage is 121%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#39f092 text on a black background

contrast 14.05:1

Card sample

#39f092 text on a white background

contrast 1.49:1

Card sample

#39f092 on grey

1.36:1

#39f092 on its own surface

1.41:1

#39f092 on its dark surface

10.82:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #39f092;
Background color
Panel with #39f092 background
background-color: #39f092;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #39f092;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(57, 240, 146, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(57, 240, 146, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #39f092;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #39f092, #39D4F0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #39f092, #39A6F0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #39f092;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #39f092;
caret-color: #39f092;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #39f092;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FDF2;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #39f092;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#39f092 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #39f092 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(57, 240, 146, 0.5)
rgb(57 240 146 / 50%)
#39f09280
hsl(149 86% 58% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #39f092 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#39f0921a#EBFEF4
20%#39f09233#D7FCE9
40%#39f09266#B0F9D3
60%#39f09299#88F6BE
80%#39f092cc#61F3A8

Gradients from #39f092

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, #72F4B1, #39f092 45%, #09773E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #39f092, #1CBCEE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #39f092, #F03997);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8EF6C1 0%, #39f092 45%, #09773E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #76F468 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #55E7F2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #09773E 0%, transparent 65%), #39f092;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #39f092

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.

#39f092 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 14.05:1.

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.

#39f092, answered

What color is #39f092?

#39f092 is a balanced electric green, closest to Medium Spring Green (ΔE2000 2.3). It sits at 149° on the hue wheel with 86% saturation and 58% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #39f092?

rgb(57, 240, 146) — 57 red, 240 green and 146 blue out of 255, or 22.4% / 94.1% / 57.3% by channel.

What is #39f092 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(149, 86%, 58%) and hsv(149, 76%, 94%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #39f092 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6527 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 14.05:1.

Should I use black or white text on #39f092?

Black. It scores 14.05:1 against #39f092, versus 1.49:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #39f092 accessible on a white background?

#39f092 on white scores 1.49:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0A8646 to reach 4.5:1, or #086435 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #39f092?

#F03997 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EE39F0 and #F0393B, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #39f092?

For interface work: #F4FAF7 as the surface, #C0EDD6 for borders, #4B9B72 for secondary text, #F435C7 as an accent and #09773E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #3BF039 and #39F0EE stays calm, while #F03997 is the loudest partner.

What is #39f092 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(76%, 0%, 39%, 6%). 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 #39f092 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 75 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #39F04F; nudged cooler, #37F2D7.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #39f092?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 10.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #39f092 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #39f092 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#39f092] or text-[#39f092], 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 #39f092 with 50% opacity?

rgba(57, 240, 146, 0.5), or #39f09280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #9CF8C9; over black, #1D7849.

Is #39f092 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FF99, ΔE2000 3.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #39f092 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 #39f092?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #72F4B1, #39f092 45%, #09773E). For more colour, a short hue run to #1CBCEE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #39f092 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #39f092 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.