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#47eb39

a balanced, electric green · cool · closest name: Lime

Token name suggestion: Studio Basil

RGB
71, 235, 57
HSL
115°, 82%, 57%
CMYK
70, 0, 76, 8
Luminance
0.6105

#47eb39 is a balanced electric green, 115° on the wheel and 61/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.21:1). As text it scores 1.59:1 on white — use #17880E instead. Nearest name is Lime, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(115 82% 57%)rgb(71 235 57)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #47eb39 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#47eb39
Hue
115°
green
Saturation
82%
electric
Lightness
57%
balanced
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
73%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6105
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
61/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.21:1
Closest name
Lime
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
100.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.825
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 9.8
Web-safe
#33FF33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue115° of 360°
Saturation82%
Lightness57%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #47eb39.

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%
Green97%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#47eb39
HEX (8-digit)#47eb39ff
RGBrgb(71, 235, 57)
RGBArgba(71, 235, 57, 1)
HSLhsl(115, 82%, 57%)
HSV / HSBhsv(115, 76%, 92%)
HWBhwb(115 22% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(70%, 0%, 76%, 8%)
LABlab(82.4 -72.6 68.9)
LCHlch(82.4 100.1 136.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.825 0.251 142.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(33.04, 61.05, 13.91)
Decimal4713273
Display P3color(display-p3 0.278 0.922 0.224)
Web-safe#33FF33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #47eb39;
background-color: #47eb39;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #47eb39;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#47eb39] bg-[#47eb39]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #47eb39;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.278, green: 0.922, blue: 0.224)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.278, green: 0.922, blue: 0.224, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#47EB39</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF47EB39)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF47EB39)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(57, 235, 71)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(71, 235, 57)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(71, 235, 57)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 71, 235, 57)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2784f, 0.9216f, 0.2235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{71,235,57}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #47eb39 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #47eb39 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#14740C, #D5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #47eb39 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: #F3FCF2;
  --brand-100: #E7F9E6;
  --brand-200: #CAF6C6;
  --brand-300: #A0F599;
  --brand-400: #71F066;
  --brand-500: #47eb39;
  --brand-600: #26DE16;
  --brand-700: #20B913;
  --brand-800: #19940F;
  --brand-900: #166B0F;
  --brand-950: #0E4309;
  --brand: #47eb39;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C3EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #29E819;
  --brand-pressed: #22C914;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #152414;
    --brand-ink: #D5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF2',
        100: '#E7F9E6',
        200: '#CAF6C6',
        300: '#A0F599',
        400: '#71F066',
        500: '#47eb39',
        600: '#26DE16',
        700: '#20B913',
        800: '#19940F',
        900: '#166B0F',
        950: '#0E4309',
        DEFAULT: '#47eb39',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF2,
  '100': #E7F9E6,
  '200': #CAF6C6,
  '300': #A0F599,
  '400': #71F066,
  '500': #47eb39,
  '600': #26DE16,
  '700': #20B913,
  '800': #19940F,
  '900': #166B0F,
  '950': #0E4309,
);
$brand-base: #47eb39;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F9E6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CAF6C6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A0F599", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#71F066", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#47eb39", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#26DE16", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#20B913", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#19940F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#166B0F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0E4309", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #47eb39 · 13.21:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.59:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.21:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #47eb39 as text scores 1.59:1 on white and 13.21:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #14740C at 3.74:1.

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
#17880E · 4.60:1
AA on white−28% L
#17880E
The quick fox
#12670A · 7.07:1
AAA on white−35% L
#12670A
The quick fox
#47eb39 · 13.21:1
AA on blackalready passes
#47eb39
The quick fox
#47eb39 · 13.21:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#47eb39

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #1DA811 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
#47eb39 on white: 1.59:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#47eb39 on black: 13.21:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #47eb39 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #47eb39.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.59:1AaAa
Slate 501.52:1AaAa
Slate 1001.45:1AaAa
Slate 2001.29:1AaAa
Slate 3001.07:1AaAa
Slate 4001.61:1AaAa
Slate 5002.99:1AaAa
Slate 6004.77:1AaAa
Slate 7006.51:1AaAa
Slate 8009.20:1AaAa
Slate 90011.23:1AaAa
Black13.21:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F1D509
deuteranopia · #DEC84D
tritanopia · #16E4C9

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. #47eb39 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.

#F3FCF2
#E7F9E6
#CAF6C6
#A0F599
#71F066
#47eb39
#26DE16
#20B913
#19940F
#166B0F
#0E4309
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF2Darkest = 950 · #0E4309Text 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 0.063 142.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.100 142.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.151 142.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.196 142.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.231 142.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.251 142.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.251 142.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.236 142.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.211 142.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.176 142.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.138 142.0);
}

Colors that work with #47eb39

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#C3EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#519B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B235EF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#14740C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FDE8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#152414
Dark-mode background
Hover#29E819
One step down in lightness
Pressed#22C914
Two steps down
Disabled#C0D6BF
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#50F742
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 #47eb39

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 #14740C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #1DA811

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
  • Weight43/100
  • 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#DD39EB
Analogous left#A0EB39
Analogous right#39EB84
Split-complement 1#8439EB
Split-complement 2#EB39A0
Triadic 1#3947EB
Triadic 2#EB3947
Tetradic#39A0EB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°115°

#47eb39 sits at 115°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red27.8%
Green92.2%
Blue22.4%
R · 0–255
71
0x47
G · 0–255
235
0xeb
B · 0–255
57
0x39

CMYK percentages

Cyan69.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow75.7%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 153%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#47eb39 text on a black background

contrast 13.21:1

Card sample

#47eb39 text on a white background

contrast 1.59:1

Card sample

#47eb39 on grey

1.45:1

#47eb39 on its own surface

1.50:1

#47eb39 on its dark surface

10.21:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #47eb39;
Background color
Panel with #47eb39 background
background-color: #47eb39;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #47eb39;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(71, 235, 57, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(71, 235, 57, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #47eb39;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #47eb39, #39EBA2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #47eb39, #39EBCE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #47eb39;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #47eb39;
caret-color: #47eb39;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #47eb39;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FDE8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #47eb39;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#47eb39 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #47eb39 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(71, 235, 57, 0.5)
rgb(71 235 57 / 50%)
#47eb3980
hsl(115 82% 57% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #47eb39 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#47eb391a#EDFDEB
20%#47eb3933#DAFBD7
40%#47eb3966#B5F7B0
60%#47eb3999#91F388
80%#47eb39cc#6CEF61

Gradients from #47eb39

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, #7BF171, #47eb39 45%, #14740C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #47eb39, #1DE8A6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #47eb39, #DD39EB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #95F38D 0%, #47eb39 45%, #14740C 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%, #C2F067 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #55EEA2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #14740C 0%, transparent 65%), #47eb39;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #47eb39

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.

#47eb39 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 13.21:1.

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.

#47eb39, answered

What color is #47eb39?

#47eb39 is a balanced electric green, closest to Lime (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 115° on the hue wheel with 82% saturation and 57% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #47eb39?

rgb(71, 235, 57) — 71 red, 235 green and 57 blue out of 255, or 27.8% / 92.2% / 22.4% by channel.

What is #47eb39 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(115, 82%, 57%) and hsv(115, 76%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #47eb39 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6105 and perceived brightness is 73%, so black text on it reaches 13.21:1.

Should I use black or white text on #47eb39?

Black. It scores 13.21:1 against #47eb39, versus 1.59:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #47eb39 accessible on a white background?

#47eb39 on white scores 1.59:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #17880E to reach 4.5:1, or #12670A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #47eb39?

#DD39EB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #8439EB and #EB39A0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #47eb39?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C3EDC0 for borders, #519B4B for secondary text, #B235EF as an accent and #14740C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #A0EB39 and #39EB84 stays calm, while #DD39EB is the loudest partner.

What is #47eb39 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(70%, 0%, 76%, 8%). 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 #47eb39 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 #88EB39; nudged cooler, #37ED6C.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #47eb39?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 9.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #47eb39 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #47eb39 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#47eb39] or text-[#47eb39], 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 #47eb39 with 50% opacity?

rgba(71, 235, 57, 0.5), or #47eb3980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A3F59C; over black, #24761D.

Is #47eb39 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FF33, ΔE2000 4.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #47eb39 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 #47eb39?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #7BF171, #47eb39 45%, #14740C). For more colour, a short hue run to #1DE8A6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #47eb39 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #47eb39 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.