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#43d080

a balanced, vivid green · cool · closest name: Medium Sea Green

Token name suggestion: True Fern

RGB
67, 208, 128
HSL
146°, 60%, 54%
CMYK
68, 0, 39, 18
Luminance
0.4786

#43d080 is a balanced vivid green, 146° on the wheel and 73/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.57:1). As text it scores 1.99:1 on white — use #22864D instead. Nearest name is Medium Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(146 60% 54%)rgb(67 208 128)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #43d080 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#43d080
Hue
146°
green
Saturation
60%
vivid
Lightness
54%
balanced
Brightness
82%
HSV value
Perceived
66%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4786
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
73/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
10.57:1
Closest name
Medium Sea Green
ΔE2000 7.7
Chroma
62.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.763
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 5.1
Web-safe
#33CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue146° of 360°
Saturation60%
Lightness54%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #43d080.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool73% 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%
Green94%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#43d080
HEX (8-digit)#43d080ff
RGBrgb(67, 208, 128)
RGBArgba(67, 208, 128, 1)
HSLhsl(146, 60%, 54%)
HSV / HSBhsv(146, 68%, 82%)
HWBhwb(146 26% 18%)
CMYKcmyk(68%, 0%, 39%, 18%)
LABlab(74.7 -55.4 29.1)
LCHlch(74.7 62.6 152.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.763 0.166 154.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(28.76, 47.86, 28.14)
Decimal4444288
Display P3color(display-p3 0.263 0.816 0.502)
Web-safe#33CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #43d080;
background-color: #43d080;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #43d080;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#43d080] bg-[#43d080]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #43d080;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.263, green: 0.816, blue: 0.502)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.263, green: 0.816, blue: 0.502, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#43D080</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF43D080)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF43D080)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(128, 208, 67)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(67, 208, 128)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(67, 208, 128)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 67, 208, 128)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2627f, 0.8157f, 0.5020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{67,208,128}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #43d080 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #43d080 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1A663B, #D3EEDF);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #43d080 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: #F4FBF7;
  --brand-100: #E9F7EF;
  --brand-200: #CCEFDC;
  --brand-300: #A5E9C2;
  --brand-400: #78DDA4;
  --brand-500: #43d080;
  --brand-600: #31C471;
  --brand-700: #29A35E;
  --brand-800: #21834B;
  --brand-900: #1B5F39;
  --brand-950: #113B23;
  --brand: #43d080;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD3;
  --brand-hover: #30BF6E;
  --brand-pressed: #29A35E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241B;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDF;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBF7',
        100: '#E9F7EF',
        200: '#CCEFDC',
        300: '#A5E9C2',
        400: '#78DDA4',
        500: '#43d080',
        600: '#31C471',
        700: '#29A35E',
        800: '#21834B',
        900: '#1B5F39',
        950: '#113B23',
        DEFAULT: '#43d080',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBF7,
  '100': #E9F7EF,
  '200': #CCEFDC,
  '300': #A5E9C2,
  '400': #78DDA4,
  '500': #43d080,
  '600': #31C471,
  '700': #29A35E,
  '800': #21834B,
  '900': #1B5F39,
  '950': #113B23,
);
$brand-base: #43d080;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBF7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F7EF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCEFDC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A5E9C2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#78DDA4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#43d080", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#31C471", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#29A35E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#21834B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1B5F39", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#113B23", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #43d080 · 10.57:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.99:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.57:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #43d080 as text scores 1.99:1 on white and 10.57:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1A663B at 3.52:1.

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
#22864D · 4.58:1
AA on white−21% L
#22864D
The quick fox
#186238 · 7.39:1
AAA on white−30% L
#186238
The quick fox
#43d080 · 10.57:1
AA on blackalready passes
#43d080
The quick fox
#43d080 · 10.57:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#43d080

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2AA760 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
#43d080 on white: 1.99:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#43d080 on black: 10.57:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #43d080 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #43d080.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.99:1AaAa
Slate 501.90:1AaAa
Slate 1001.81:1AaAa
Slate 2001.61:1AaAa
Slate 3001.34:1AaAa
Slate 4001.29:1AaAa
Slate 5002.40:1AaAa
Slate 6003.82:1AaAa
Slate 7005.21:1AaAa
Slate 8007.37:1AaAa
Slate 9008.99:1AaAa
Black10.57:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D0BF7B
deuteranopia · #BEB385
tritanopia · #00CEBC

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. #43d080 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.

#F4FBF7
#E9F7EF
#CCEFDC
#A5E9C2
#78DDA4
#43d080
#31C471
#29A35E
#21834B
#1B5F39
#113B23
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F4FBF7Darkest = 950 · #113B23Text 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 0.042 154.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.067 154.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.100 154.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.130 154.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.153 154.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.166 154.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.166 154.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.156 154.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.140 154.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.116 154.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.091 154.2);
}

Colors that work with #43d080

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#C0EDD3
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B6D
Captions on the surface
Accent#D53EB9
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1A663B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFAF1
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241B
Dark-mode background
Hover#30BF6E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#29A35E
Two steps down
Disabled#B4CFC0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#48DF8A
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #43d080

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 #1A663B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2AA760

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
  • Weight46/100
  • 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#D04393
Analogous left#4CD043
Analogous right#43D0C7
Split-complement 1#C743D0
Split-complement 2#D0434C
Triadic 1#8043D0
Triadic 2#D08043
Tetradic#434CD0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°146°

#43d080 sits at 146°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red26.3%
Green81.6%
Blue50.2%
R · 0–255
67
0x43
G · 0–255
208
0xd0
B · 0–255
128
0x80

CMYK percentages

Cyan67.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow38.5%
Key (black)18.4%

Total ink coverage is 125%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#43d080 text on a black background

contrast 10.57:1

Card sample

#43d080 text on a white background

contrast 1.99:1

Card sample

#43d080 on grey

1.81:1

#43d080 on its own surface

1.88:1

#43d080 on its dark surface

8.15:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #43d080;
Background color
Panel with #43d080 background
background-color: #43d080;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #43d080;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(67, 208, 128, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(67, 208, 128, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #43d080;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #43d080, #43C2D0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #43d080, #439FD0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #43d080;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #43d080;
caret-color: #43d080;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #43d080;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFAF1;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #43d080;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#43d080 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #43d080 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(67, 208, 128, 0.5)
rgb(67 208 128 / 50%)
#43d08080
hsl(146 60% 54% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #43d080 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#43d0801a#ECFAF2
20%#43d08033#D9F6E6
40%#43d08066#B4ECCC
60%#43d08099#8EE3B3
80%#43d080cc#69D999

Gradients from #43d080

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, #74DCA1, #43d080 45%, #1A663B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #43d080, #31A9C3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #43d080, #D04393);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8CE2B2 0%, #43d080 45%, #1A663B 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%, #7CDA6C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5BD4D6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1A663B 0%, transparent 65%), #43d080;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #43d080

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.

#43d080 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 10.57:1.

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.

#43d080, answered

What color is #43d080?

#43d080 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Medium Sea Green (ΔE2000 7.7). It sits at 146° on the hue wheel with 60% saturation and 54% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #43d080?

rgb(67, 208, 128) — 67 red, 208 green and 128 blue out of 255, or 26.3% / 81.6% / 50.2% by channel.

What is #43d080 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(146, 60%, 54%) and hsv(146, 68%, 82%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #43d080 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4786 and perceived brightness is 66%, so black text on it reaches 10.57:1.

Should I use black or white text on #43d080?

Black. It scores 10.57:1 against #43d080, versus 1.99:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #43d080 accessible on a white background?

#43d080 on white scores 1.99:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #22864D to reach 4.5:1, or #186238 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #43d080?

#D04393 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C743D0 and #D0434C, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #43d080?

For interface work: #F4FAF7 as the surface, #C0EDD3 for borders, #4B9B6D for secondary text, #D53EB9 as an accent and #1A663B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #4CD043 and #43D0C7 stays calm, while #D04393 is the loudest partner.

What is #43d080 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(68%, 0%, 39%, 18%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #43d080 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 73 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #43D04C; nudged cooler, #41D2B5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #43d080?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 5.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #43d080 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #43d080 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#43d080] or text-[#43d080], 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 #43d080 with 50% opacity?

rgba(67, 208, 128, 0.5), or #43d08080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A1E8C0; over black, #226840.

Is #43d080 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CC99, ΔE2000 6.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #43d080 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 #43d080?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #74DCA1, #43d080 45%, #1A663B). For more colour, a short hue run to #31A9C3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #43d080 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #43d080 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.