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#4fdf11

a balanced, electric green · neutral · closest name: Lime Green

Token name suggestion: Studio Basil

RGB
79, 223, 17
HSL
102°, 86%, 47%
CMYK
65, 0, 92, 13
Luminance
0.5448

#4fdf11 is a balanced electric green, 102° on the wheel and 55/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.90:1). As text it scores 1.77:1 on white — use #2F850A instead. Nearest name is Lime Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(102 86% 47%)rgb(79 223 17)Base step 600AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #4fdf11 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#4fdf11
Hue
102°
green
Saturation
86%
electric
Lightness
47%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
69%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5448
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
55/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
11.90:1
Closest name
Lime Green
ΔE2000 5.6
Chroma
101.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.794
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 7
Web-safe
#66CC00
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue102° of 360°
Saturation86%
Lightness47%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #4fdf11.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool55% 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
Red3%
Green97%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#4fdf11
HEX (8-digit)#4fdf11ff
RGBrgb(79, 223, 17)
RGBArgba(79, 223, 17, 1)
HSLhsl(102, 86%, 47%)
HSV / HSBhsv(102, 92%, 87%)
HWBhwb(102 7% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(65%, 0%, 92%, 13%)
LABlab(78.7 -69.0 74.7)
LCHlch(78.7 101.7 132.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.794 0.250 139.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(29.71, 54.48, 9.48)
Decimal5234449
Display P3color(display-p3 0.310 0.875 0.067)
Web-safe#66CC00

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #4fdf11;
background-color: #4fdf11;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #4fdf11;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#4fdf11] bg-[#4fdf11]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #4fdf11;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.310, green: 0.875, blue: 0.067)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.310, green: 0.875, blue: 0.067, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#4FDF11</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF4FDF11)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF4FDF11)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(17, 223, 79)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(79, 223, 17)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(79, 223, 17)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 79, 223, 17)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3098f, 0.8745f, 0.0667f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{79,223,17}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #4fdf11 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #4fdf11 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2A7609, #DBEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #4fdf11 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: #F5FDF2;
  --brand-100: #ECFAE5;
  --brand-200: #D4F7C5;
  --brand-300: #B4F797;
  --brand-400: #8EF363;
  --brand-500: #69EF2F;
  --brand-600: #4fdf11;
  --brand-700: #43BE0E;
  --brand-800: #36980C;
  --brand-900: #2A6E0D;
  --brand-950: #1A4408;
  --brand: #4fdf11;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6FAF4;
  --brand-border: #CDEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #43BE0F;
  --brand-pressed: #389D0C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #192414;
    --brand-ink: #DBEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FDF2',
        100: '#ECFAE5',
        200: '#D4F7C5',
        300: '#B4F797',
        400: '#8EF363',
        500: '#69EF2F',
        600: '#4fdf11',
        700: '#43BE0E',
        800: '#36980C',
        900: '#2A6E0D',
        950: '#1A4408',
        DEFAULT: '#4fdf11',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FDF2,
  '100': #ECFAE5,
  '200': #D4F7C5,
  '300': #B4F797,
  '400': #8EF363,
  '500': #69EF2F,
  '600': #4fdf11,
  '700': #43BE0E,
  '800': #36980C,
  '900': #2A6E0D,
  '950': #1A4408,
);
$brand-base: #4fdf11;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECFAE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D4F7C5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B4F797", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8EF363", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#69EF2F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4fdf11", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#43BE0E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#36980C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2A6E0D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1A4408", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #4fdf11 · 11.90:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.77:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.90:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #4fdf11 as text scores 1.77:1 on white and 11.90:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #2A7609 at 3.22:1.

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
#2F850A · 4.69:1
AA on white−19% L
#2F850A
The quick fox
#236408 · 7.25:1
AAA on white−26% L
#236408
The quick fox
#4fdf11 · 11.90:1
AA on blackalready passes
#4fdf11
The quick fox
#4fdf11 · 11.90:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#4fdf11

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3BA60D 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
#4fdf11 on white: 1.77:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#4fdf11 on black: 11.90:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #4fdf11 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #4fdf11.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.77:1AaAa
Slate 501.69:1AaAa
Slate 1001.61:1AaAa
Slate 2001.43:1AaAa
Slate 3001.19:1AaAa
Slate 4001.45:1AaAa
Slate 5002.70:1AaAa
Slate 6004.29:1AaAa
Slate 7005.87:1AaAa
Slate 8008.29:1AaAa
Slate 90010.11:1AaAa
Black11.90:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E6CA00
deuteranopia · #D5BF35
tritanopia · #39D7BE

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. #4fdf11 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FDF2
#ECFAE5
#D4F7C5
#B4F797
#8EF363
#69EF2F
#4fdf11
#43BE0E
#36980C
#2A6E0D
#1A4408
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F5FDF2Darkest = 950 · #1A4408Text 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 0.062 139.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.100 139.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.150 139.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.195 139.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.230 139.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.250 139.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.250 139.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.235 139.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.210 139.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.175 139.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.137 139.6);
}

Colors that work with #4fdf11

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#F6FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#CDEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#639B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6D0CE4
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2A7609
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEFDE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#192414
Dark-mode background
Hover#43BE0F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#389D0C
Two steps down
Disabled#A9C29F
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#53FA0B
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 #4fdf11

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 #2A7609
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3BA60D

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
  • Weight53/100
  • 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#A111DF
Analogous left#B6DF11
Analogous right#11DF3A
Split-complement 1#3A11DF
Split-complement 2#DF11B6
Triadic 1#114FDF
Triadic 2#DF114F
Tetradic#11B6DF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°102°

#4fdf11 sits at 102°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red31.0%
Green87.5%
Blue6.7%
R · 0–255
79
0x4f
G · 0–255
223
0xdf
B · 0–255
17
0x11

CMYK percentages

Cyan64.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow92.4%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 170%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#4fdf11 text on a black background

contrast 11.90:1

Card sample

#4fdf11 text on a white background

contrast 1.77:1

Card sample

#4fdf11 on grey

1.61:1

#4fdf11 on its own surface

1.67:1

#4fdf11 on its dark surface

9.12:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #4fdf11;
Background color
Panel with #4fdf11 background
background-color: #4fdf11;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #4fdf11;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(79, 223, 17, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(79, 223, 17, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #4fdf11;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4fdf11, #11DF5C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4fdf11, #11DF90);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #4fdf11;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #4fdf11;
caret-color: #4fdf11;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #4fdf11;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEFDE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #4fdf11;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#4fdf11 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #4fdf11 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(79, 223, 17, 0.5)
rgb(79 223 17 / 50%)
#4fdf1180
hsl(102 86% 47% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #4fdf11 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#4fdf111a#EDFCE7
20%#4fdf1133#DCF9CF
40%#4fdf1166#B9F2A0
60%#4fdf1199#95EC70
80%#4fdf11cc#72E541

Gradients from #4fdf11

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, #73F03D, #4fdf11 45%, #2A7609);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #4fdf11, #0FC360);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4fdf11, #A111DF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #88F25A 0%, #4fdf11 45%, #2A7609 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%, #DAEF34 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #21EE5B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2A7609 0%, transparent 65%), #4fdf11;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #4fdf11

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.

#4fdf11 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 11.90:1.

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.

#4fdf11, answered

What color is #4fdf11?

#4fdf11 is a balanced electric green, closest to Lime Green (ΔE2000 5.6). It sits at 102° on the hue wheel with 86% saturation and 47% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #4fdf11?

rgb(79, 223, 17) — 79 red, 223 green and 17 blue out of 255, or 31% / 87.5% / 6.7% by channel.

What is #4fdf11 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(102, 86%, 47%) and hsv(102, 92%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #4fdf11 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5448 and perceived brightness is 69%, so black text on it reaches 11.90:1.

Should I use black or white text on #4fdf11?

Black. It scores 11.90:1 against #4fdf11, versus 1.77:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #4fdf11 accessible on a white background?

#4fdf11 on white scores 1.77:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #2F850A to reach 4.5:1, or #236408 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #4fdf11?

#A111DF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #3A11DF and #DF11B6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #4fdf11?

For interface work: #F6FAF4 as the surface, #CDEDC0 for borders, #639B4B for secondary text, #6D0CE4 as an accent and #2A7609 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #B6DF11 and #11DF3A stays calm, while #A111DF is the loudest partner.

What is #4fdf11 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(65%, 0%, 92%, 13%). 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 #4fdf11 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 55 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #9BDF11; nudged cooler, #0FE21C.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #4fdf11?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #4fdf11 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #4fdf11 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#4fdf11] or text-[#4fdf11], 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 #4fdf11 with 50% opacity?

rgba(79, 223, 17, 0.5), or #4fdf1180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A7EF88; over black, #287009.

Is #4fdf11 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC00, ΔE2000 4.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #4fdf11 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 #4fdf11?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #73F03D, #4fdf11 45%, #2A7609). For more colour, a short hue run to #0FC360 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #4fdf11 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #4fdf11 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.