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#39df2f

a balanced, vivid green · cool · closest name: Lime Green

Token name suggestion: Atlas Basil

RGB
57, 223, 47
HSL
117°, 73%, 53%
CMYK
74, 0, 79, 13
Luminance
0.5385

#39df2f is a balanced vivid green, 117° on the wheel and 61/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.77:1). As text it scores 1.78:1 on white — use #1C8915 instead. Nearest name is Lime Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(117 73% 53%)rgb(57 223 47)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #39df2f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#39df2f
Hue
117°
green
Saturation
73%
vivid
Lightness
53%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
68%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5385
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
61/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
11.77:1
Closest name
Lime Green
ΔE2000 4.5
Chroma
98.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.790
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 8.6
Web-safe
#33CC33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue117° of 360°
Saturation73%
Lightness53%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #39df2f.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool61% 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%
Green98%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#39df2f
HEX (8-digit)#39df2fff
RGBrgb(57, 223, 47)
RGBArgba(57, 223, 47, 1)
HSLhsl(117, 73%, 53%)
HSV / HSBhsv(117, 79%, 87%)
HWBhwb(117 18% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(74%, 0%, 79%, 13%)
LABlab(78.4 -71.8 68.0)
LCHlch(78.4 98.8 136.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.790 0.247 142.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(28.59, 53.85, 11.58)
Decimal3792687
Display P3color(display-p3 0.224 0.875 0.184)
Web-safe#33CC33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #39df2f;
background-color: #39df2f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #39df2f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#39df2f] bg-[#39df2f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #39df2f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.224, green: 0.875, blue: 0.184)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.224, green: 0.875, blue: 0.184, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#39DF2F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF39DF2F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF39DF2F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(47, 223, 57)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(57, 223, 47)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(57, 223, 47)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 57, 223, 47)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2235f, 0.8745f, 0.1843f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{57,223,47}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #39df2f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #39df2f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#166E11, #D4EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #39df2f 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: #F3FCF3;
  --brand-100: #E8F8E7;
  --brand-200: #CBF3C8;
  --brand-300: #A2F09E;
  --brand-400: #74E96D;
  --brand-500: #39df2f;
  --brand-600: #2BD421;
  --brand-700: #24B11B;
  --brand-800: #1D8D16;
  --brand-900: #196614;
  --brand-950: #0F400C;
  --brand: #39df2f;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C2EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #29CB1F;
  --brand-pressed: #23AC1A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #152414;
    --brand-ink: #D4EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF3',
        100: '#E8F8E7',
        200: '#CBF3C8',
        300: '#A2F09E',
        400: '#74E96D',
        500: '#39df2f',
        600: '#2BD421',
        700: '#24B11B',
        800: '#1D8D16',
        900: '#196614',
        950: '#0F400C',
        DEFAULT: '#39df2f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF3,
  '100': #E8F8E7,
  '200': #CBF3C8,
  '300': #A2F09E,
  '400': #74E96D,
  '500': #39df2f,
  '600': #2BD421,
  '700': #24B11B,
  '800': #1D8D16,
  '900': #196614,
  '950': #0F400C,
);
$brand-base: #39df2f;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F8E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CBF3C8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A2F09E", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#74E96D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#39df2f", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2BD421", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#24B11B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1D8D16", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#196614", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F400C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #39df2f · 11.77:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.78:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.77:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #39df2f as text scores 1.78:1 on white and 11.77:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #166E11 at 3.60:1.

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
#1C8915 · 4.53:1
AA on white−22% L
#1C8915
The quick fox
#146510 · 7.24:1
AAA on white−30% L
#146510
The quick fox
#39df2f · 11.77:1
AA on blackalready passes
#39df2f
The quick fox
#39df2f · 11.77:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#39df2f

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #23AC1A 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
#39df2f on white: 1.78:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#39df2f on black: 11.77:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #39df2f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #39df2f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.78:1AaAa
Slate 501.71:1AaAa
Slate 1001.63:1AaAa
Slate 2001.45:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4001.44:1AaAa
Slate 5002.67:1AaAa
Slate 6004.25:1AaAa
Slate 7005.80:1AaAa
Slate 8008.20:1AaAa
Slate 90010.01:1AaAa
Black11.77:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E4CA00
deuteranopia · #D2BD45
tritanopia · #00D8BF

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. #39df2f 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.

#F3FCF3
#E8F8E7
#CBF3C8
#A2F09E
#74E96D
#39df2f
#2BD421
#24B11B
#1D8D16
#196614
#0F400C
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF3Darkest = 950 · #0F400CText 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 0.062 142.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.099 142.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.148 142.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.193 142.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.227 142.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.247 142.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.247 142.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.232 142.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.207 142.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.173 142.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.136 142.2);
}

Colors that work with #39df2f

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#C2EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4F9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#AB2AE4
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#166E11
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFCE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#152414
Dark-mode background
Hover#29CB1F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#23AC1A
Two steps down
Disabled#B3CDB1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#40ED36
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 #39df2f

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 #166E11
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #23AC1A

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
  • Weight47/100
  • 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#D52FDF
Analogous left#91DF2F
Analogous right#2FDF7D
Split-complement 1#7D2FDF
Split-complement 2#DF2F91
Triadic 1#2F39DF
Triadic 2#DF2F39
Tetradic#2F91DF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°117°

#39df2f sits at 117°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red22.4%
Green87.5%
Blue18.4%
R · 0–255
57
0x39
G · 0–255
223
0xdf
B · 0–255
47
0x2f

CMYK percentages

Cyan74.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow78.9%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 166%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#39df2f text on a black background

contrast 11.77:1

Card sample

#39df2f text on a white background

contrast 1.78:1

Card sample

#39df2f on grey

1.63:1

#39df2f on its own surface

1.69:1

#39df2f on its dark surface

9.09:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #39df2f;
Background color
Panel with #39df2f background
background-color: #39df2f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #39df2f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(57, 223, 47, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(57, 223, 47, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #39df2f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #39df2f, #2FDF9A);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #39df2f, #2FDFC6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #39df2f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #39df2f;
caret-color: #39df2f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #39df2f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFCE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #39df2f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#39df2f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #39df2f 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, 223, 47, 0.5)
rgb(57 223 47 / 50%)
#39df2f80
hsl(117 73% 53% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #39df2f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#39df2f1a#EBFCEA
20%#39df2f33#D7F9D5
40%#39df2f66#B0F2AC
60%#39df2f99#88EC82
80%#39df2fcc#61E559

Gradients from #39df2f

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, #6BE764, #39df2f 45%, #166E11);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #39df2f, #20CF99);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #39df2f, #D52FDF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #85EB7E 0%, #39df2f 45%, #166E11 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%, #B4E65B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #49E39A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #166E11 0%, transparent 65%), #39df2f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #39df2f

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.

#39df2f 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 11.77:1.

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.

#39df2f, answered

What color is #39df2f?

#39df2f is a balanced vivid green, closest to Lime Green (ΔE2000 4.5). It sits at 117° on the hue wheel with 73% saturation and 53% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #39df2f?

rgb(57, 223, 47) — 57 red, 223 green and 47 blue out of 255, or 22.4% / 87.5% / 18.4% by channel.

What is #39df2f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(117, 73%, 53%) and hsv(117, 79%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #39df2f a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5385 and perceived brightness is 68%, so black text on it reaches 11.77:1.

Should I use black or white text on #39df2f?

Black. It scores 11.77:1 against #39df2f, versus 1.78:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #39df2f accessible on a white background?

#39df2f on white scores 1.78:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1C8915 to reach 4.5:1, or #146510 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #39df2f?

#D52FDF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #7D2FDF and #DF2F91, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #39df2f?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C2EDC0 for borders, #4F9B4B for secondary text, #AB2AE4 as an accent and #166E11 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #91DF2F and #2FDF7D stays calm, while #D52FDF is the loudest partner.

What is #39df2f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(74%, 0%, 79%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #39df2f warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 61 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #79DF2F; nudged cooler, #2CE165.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #39df2f?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 8.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #39df2f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #39df2f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#39df2f] or text-[#39df2f], 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 #39df2f with 50% opacity?

rgba(57, 223, 47, 0.5), or #39df2f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #9CEF97; over black, #1D7018.

Is #39df2f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CC33, ΔE2000 4.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #39df2f 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 #39df2f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #6BE764, #39df2f 45%, #166E11). For more colour, a short hue run to #20CF99 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #39df2f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #39df2f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.