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#3f7e21

a dark, vivid green · neutral · closest name: Green

Token name suggestion: Shadow Jade

RGB
63, 126, 33
HSL
101°, 59%, 31%
CMYK
50, 0, 74, 51
Luminance
0.1609

#3f7e21 is a dark vivid green, 101° on the wheel and 54/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.98:1). As text it scores 4.98:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(101 59% 31%)rgb(63 126 33)Base step 800AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #3f7e21 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#3f7e21
Hue
101°
green
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
31%
dark
Brightness
49%
HSV value
Perceived
40%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1609
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
54/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
4.98:1
Closest name
Green
ΔE2000 4.6
Chroma
56.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.531
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 22.4
Web-safe
#336633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue101° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness31%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #3f7e21.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool54% 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
Red7%
Green93%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#3f7e21
HEX (8-digit)#3f7e21ff
RGBrgb(63, 126, 33)
RGBArgba(63, 126, 33, 1)
HSLhsl(101, 59%, 31%)
HSV / HSBhsv(101, 74%, 49%)
HWBhwb(101 13% 51%)
CMYKcmyk(50%, 0%, 74%, 51%)
LABlab(47.1 -37.6 42.1)
LCHlch(47.1 56.5 131.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.531 0.141 137.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(9.78, 16.09, 4.03)
Decimal4161057
Display P3color(display-p3 0.247 0.494 0.129)
Web-safe#336633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #3f7e21;
background-color: #3f7e21;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #3f7e21;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#3f7e21] bg-[#3f7e21]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #3f7e21;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.247, green: 0.494, blue: 0.129)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.247, green: 0.494, blue: 0.129, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#3F7E21</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF3F7E21)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF3F7E21)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(33, 126, 63)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(63, 126, 33)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(63, 126, 33)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 63, 126, 33)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2471f, 0.4941f, 0.1294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{63,126,33}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #3f7e21 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #3f7e21 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#33651A, #DCEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #3f7e21 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: #F6FBF4;
  --brand-100: #EDF7E9;
  --brand-200: #D8EFCD;
  --brand-300: #BBE8A6;
  --brand-400: #99DC7A;
  --brand-500: #78D04D;
  --brand-600: #61C233;
  --brand-700: #51A22A;
  --brand-800: #3f7e21;
  --brand-900: #325E1C;
  --brand-950: #1F3B12;
  --brand: #3f7e21;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F6FAF4;
  --brand-border: #CEEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #31621A;
  --brand-pressed: #234612;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #192414;
    --brand-ink: #DCEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6FBF4',
        100: '#EDF7E9',
        200: '#D8EFCD',
        300: '#BBE8A6',
        400: '#99DC7A',
        500: '#78D04D',
        600: '#61C233',
        700: '#51A22A',
        800: '#3f7e21',
        900: '#325E1C',
        950: '#1F3B12',
        DEFAULT: '#3f7e21',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6FBF4,
  '100': #EDF7E9,
  '200': #D8EFCD,
  '300': #BBE8A6,
  '400': #99DC7A,
  '500': #78D04D,
  '600': #61C233,
  '700': #51A22A,
  '800': #3f7e21,
  '900': #325E1C,
  '950': #1F3B12,
);
$brand-base: #3f7e21;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EDF7E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D8EFCD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BBE8A6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#99DC7A", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#78D04D", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#61C233", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#51A22A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#3f7e21", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#325E1C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1F3B12", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$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#ffffff on #3f7e21 · 4.98:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.98:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.22:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #3f7e21 as text scores 4.98:1 on white and 4.22:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F0FAEB at 4.64:1.

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
#3f7e21 · 4.98:1
AA on whitealready passes
#3f7e21
The quick fox
#31621A · 7.26:1
AAA on white−7% L
#31621A
The quick fox
#438623 · 4.67:1
AA on black+2% L
#438623
The quick fox
#55AB2D · 7.25:1
AAA on black+11% L
#55AB2D

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3F7E21 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
#3f7e21 on white: 4.98:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#3f7e21 on black: 4.22:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #3f7e21 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #3f7e21.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.98:1AaAa
Slate 504.76:1AaAa
Slate 1004.54:1AaAa
Slate 2004.04:1AaAa
Slate 3003.35:1AaAa
Slate 4001.94:1AaAa
Slate 5001.05:1AaAa
Slate 6001.52:1AaAa
Slate 7002.08:1AaAa
Slate 8002.94:1AaAa
Slate 9003.59:1AaAa
Black4.22:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #827311
deuteranopia · #7A6E2A
tritanopia · #3B796C

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. #3f7e21 is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F6FBF4
#EDF7E9
#D8EFCD
#BBE8A6
#99DC7A
#78D04D
#61C233
#51A22A
#3f7e21
#325E1C
#1F3B12
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F6FBF4Darkest = 950 · #1F3B12Text 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 0.035 137.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.056 137.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.085 137.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.110 137.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.130 137.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.141 137.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.141 137.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.133 137.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.119 137.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.099 137.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.078 137.5);
}

Colors that work with #3f7e21

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F6FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#CEEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#659B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#481E81
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#33651A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0FAEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#192414
Dark-mode background
Hover#31621A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#234612
Two steps down
Disabled#7EA26D
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#44971C
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 #3f7e21

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • 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
  • 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
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

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 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
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight69/100
  • 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#60217E
Analogous left#6E7E21
Analogous right#217E31
Split-complement 1#31217E
Split-complement 2#7E216E
Triadic 1#213F7E
Triadic 2#7E213F
Tetradic#216E7E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°101°

#3f7e21 sits at 101°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red24.7%
Green49.4%
Blue12.9%
R · 0–255
63
0x3f
G · 0–255
126
0x7e
B · 0–255
33
0x21

CMYK percentages

Cyan50.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow73.8%
Key (black)50.6%

Total ink coverage is 174%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#3f7e21 text on a black background

contrast 4.22:1

Card sample

#3f7e21 text on a white background

contrast 4.98:1

Card sample

#3f7e21 on grey

4.54:1

#3f7e21 on its own surface

4.72:1

#3f7e21 on its dark surface

3.23:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #3f7e21;
Background color
Panel with #3f7e21 background
background-color: #3f7e21;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #3f7e21;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(63, 126, 33, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(63, 126, 33, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #3f7e21;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3f7e21, #217E41);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #3f7e21, #217E58);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #3f7e21;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #3f7e21;
caret-color: #3f7e21;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #3f7e21;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0FAEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #3f7e21;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#3f7e21 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #3f7e21 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(63, 126, 33, 0.5)
rgb(63 126 33 / 50%)
#3f7e2180
hsl(101 59% 31% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #3f7e21 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#3f7e211a#ECF2E9
20%#3f7e2133#D9E5D3
40%#3f7e2166#B2CBA6
60%#3f7e2199#8CB27A
80%#3f7e21cc#65984D

Gradients from #3f7e21

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, #57AF2E, #3f7e21 45%, #33651A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #3f7e21, #1B663B);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #3f7e21, #60217E);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #64C734 0%, #3f7e21 45%, #33651A 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%, #9BA72C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #279644 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #33651A 0%, transparent 65%), #3f7e21;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #3f7e21

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.

#3f7e21 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

Too dim on dark surfaces at 4.22:1 — lift it to #438623 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

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.

#3f7e21, answered

What color is #3f7e21?

#3f7e21 is a dark vivid green, closest to Green (ΔE2000 4.6). It sits at 101° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 31% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #3f7e21?

rgb(63, 126, 33) — 63 red, 126 green and 33 blue out of 255, or 24.7% / 49.4% / 12.9% by channel.

What is #3f7e21 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(101, 59%, 31%) and hsv(101, 74%, 49%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #3f7e21 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1609 and perceived brightness is 40%, so white text on it reaches 4.98:1.

Should I use black or white text on #3f7e21?

White. It scores 4.98:1 against #3f7e21, versus 4.22:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #3f7e21 accessible on a white background?

#3f7e21 on white scores 4.98:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #3f7e21?

#60217E sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #31217E and #7E216E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #3f7e21?

For interface work: #F6FAF4 as the surface, #CEEDC0 for borders, #659B4B for secondary text, #481E81 as an accent and #33651A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #6E7E21 and #217E31 stays calm, while #60217E is the loudest partner.

What is #3f7e21 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(50%, 0%, 74%, 51%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #3f7e21 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 54 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #617E21; nudged cooler, #1F8024.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #3f7e21?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 22.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #3f7e21 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #3f7e21 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#3f7e21] or text-[#3f7e21], 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 #3f7e21 with 50% opacity?

rgba(63, 126, 33, 0.5), or #3f7e2180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #9FBF90; over black, #203F11.

Is #3f7e21 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #336633, ΔE2000 10.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #3f7e21 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 #3f7e21?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #57AF2E, #3f7e21 45%, #33651A). For more colour, a short hue run to #1B663B keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #3f7e21 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #3f7e21 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.