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#577342

a dark, soft green · neutral · closest name: Dark Olive Green

Token name suggestion: Forest Basil

RGB
87, 115, 66
HSL
94°, 27%, 36%
CMYK
24, 0, 43, 55
Luminance
0.1468

#577342 is a dark soft green, 94° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.34:1). As text it scores 5.34:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Olive Green, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(94 27% 36%)rgb(87 115 66)Base step 800AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #577342 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#577342
Hue
94°
green
Saturation
27%
soft
Lightness
36%
dark
Brightness
45%
HSV value
Perceived
40%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1468
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
5.34:1
Closest name
Dark Olive Green
ΔE2000 4.5
Chroma
31.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.521
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 20.3
Web-safe
#666633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue94° of 360°
Saturation27%
Lightness36%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #577342.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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
Red14%
Green84%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#577342
HEX (8-digit)#577342ff
RGBrgb(87, 115, 66)
RGBArgba(87, 115, 66, 1)
HSLhsl(94, 27%, 36%)
HSV / HSBhsv(94, 43%, 45%)
HWBhwb(94 26% 55%)
CMYKcmyk(24%, 0%, 43%, 55%)
LABlab(45.2 -19.8 23.9)
LCHlch(45.2 31.0 129.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.521 0.080 132.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(11.04, 14.68, 7.40)
Decimal5731138
Display P3color(display-p3 0.341 0.451 0.259)
Web-safe#666633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #577342;
background-color: #577342;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #577342;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#577342] bg-[#577342]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #577342;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.341, green: 0.451, blue: 0.259)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.341, green: 0.451, blue: 0.259, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#577342</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF577342)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF577342)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(66, 115, 87)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(87, 115, 66)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(87, 115, 66)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 87, 115, 66)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3412f, 0.4510f, 0.2588f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{87,115,66}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #577342 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #577342 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3D512E, #DFE9D8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #577342 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: #F7F9F6;
  --brand-100: #EFF3EC;
  --brand-200: #DDE6D6;
  --brand-300: #C5D6B8;
  --brand-400: #A8C294;
  --brand-500: #8AAD70;
  --brand-600: #769C59;
  --brand-700: #62824A;
  --brand-800: #577342;
  --brand-900: #3B4C2E;
  --brand-950: #25301D;
  --brand: #577342;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F7F9F5;
  --brand-border: #D5E1CB;
  --brand-hover: #465C35;
  --brand-pressed: #354628;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2414;
    --brand-ink: #DFE9D8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F9F6',
        100: '#EFF3EC',
        200: '#DDE6D6',
        300: '#C5D6B8',
        400: '#A8C294',
        500: '#8AAD70',
        600: '#769C59',
        700: '#62824A',
        800: '#577342',
        900: '#3B4C2E',
        950: '#25301D',
        DEFAULT: '#577342',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F9F6,
  '100': #EFF3EC,
  '200': #DDE6D6,
  '300': #C5D6B8,
  '400': #A8C294,
  '500': #8AAD70,
  '600': #769C59,
  '700': #62824A,
  '800': #577342,
  '900': #3B4C2E,
  '950': #25301D,
);
$brand-base: #577342;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFF3EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DDE6D6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C5D6B8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A8C294", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8AAD70", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#769C59", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#62824A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#577342", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3B4C2E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#25301D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #577342 · 5.34:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.34:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.94:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #577342 as text scores 5.34:1 on white and 3.94:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F2F6EF at 4.88:1.

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
#577342 · 5.34:1
AA on whitealready passes
#577342
The quick fox
#465C35 · 7.39:1
AAA on white−7% L
#465C35
The quick fox
#5E7D48 · 4.50:1
AA on black+3% L
#5E7D48
The quick fox
#79A05C · 7.00:1
AAA on black+14% L
#79A05C

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #577342 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
#577342 on white: 5.34:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#577342 on black: 3.94:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #577342 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #577342.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.34:1AaAa
Slate 505.10:1AaAa
Slate 1004.87:1AaAa
Slate 2004.33:1AaAa
Slate 3003.59:1AaAa
Slate 4002.08:1AaAa
Slate 5001.12:1AaAa
Slate 6001.42:1AaAa
Slate 7001.94:1AaAa
Slate 8002.74:1AaAa
Slate 9003.35:1AaAa
Black3.94:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #776C3E
deuteranopia · #736A45
tritanopia · #586F67

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. #577342 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.

#F7F9F6
#EFF3EC
#DDE6D6
#C5D6B8
#A8C294
#8AAD70
#769C59
#62824A
#577342
#3B4C2E
#25301D
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F7F9F6Darkest = 950 · #25301DText 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 0.020 132.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.032 132.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.048 132.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.062 132.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.073 132.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.080 132.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.080 132.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.075 132.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.067 132.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.056 132.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.044 132.8);
}

Colors that work with #577342

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#F7F9F5
Tinted page background
Border#D5E1CB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6E9254
Captions on the surface
Accent#503E77
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3D512E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2F6EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#465C35
One step down in lightness
Pressed#354628
Two steps down
Disabled#8FAA7B
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#5F8A3F
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 #577342

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

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • 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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • Weight65/100
  • 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#5E4273
Analogous left#707342
Analogous right#427346
Split-complement 1#464273
Split-complement 2#734270
Triadic 1#425773
Triadic 2#734257
Tetradic#427073
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°94°

#577342 sits at 94°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red34.1%
Green45.1%
Blue25.9%
R · 0–255
87
0x57
G · 0–255
115
0x73
B · 0–255
66
0x42

CMYK percentages

Cyan24.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow42.6%
Key (black)54.9%

Total ink coverage is 122%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#577342 text on a black background

contrast 3.94:1

Card sample

#577342 text on a white background

contrast 5.34:1

Card sample

#577342 on grey

4.87:1

#577342 on its own surface

5.04:1

#577342 on its dark surface

3.01:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #577342;
Background color
Panel with #577342 background
background-color: #577342;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #577342;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(87, 115, 66, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(87, 115, 66, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #577342;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #577342, #42734E);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #577342, #42735A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #577342;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #577342;
caret-color: #577342;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #577342;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2F6EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #577342;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#577342 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #577342 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(87, 115, 66, 0.5)
rgb(87 115 66 / 50%)
#57734280
hsl(94 27% 36% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #577342 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#5773421a#EEF1EC
20%#57734233#DDE3D9
40%#57734266#BCC7B3
60%#57734299#9AAB8E
80%#577342cc#798F68

Gradients from #577342

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, #749A58, #577342 45%, #3D512E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #577342, #376044);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #577342, #5E4273);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #84A968 0%, #577342 45%, #3D512E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F9F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #939355 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #4D8756 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3D512E 0%, transparent 65%), #577342;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #577342

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.

#577342 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 3.94:1 — lift it to #5E7D48 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.

#577342, answered

What color is #577342?

#577342 is a dark soft green, closest to Dark Olive Green (ΔE2000 4.5). It sits at 94° on the hue wheel with 27% saturation and 36% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #577342?

rgb(87, 115, 66) — 87 red, 115 green and 66 blue out of 255, or 34.1% / 45.1% / 25.9% by channel.

What is #577342 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(94, 27%, 36%) and hsv(94, 43%, 45%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #577342 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1468 and perceived brightness is 40%, so white text on it reaches 5.34:1.

Should I use black or white text on #577342?

White. It scores 5.34:1 against #577342, versus 3.94:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #577342 accessible on a white background?

#577342 on white scores 5.34:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #577342?

#5E4273 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #464273 and #734270, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #577342?

For interface work: #F7F9F5 as the surface, #D5E1CB for borders, #6E9254 for secondary text, #503E77 as an accent and #3D512E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #707342 and #427346 stays calm, while #5E4273 is the loudest partner.

What is #577342 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(24%, 0%, 43%, 55%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #577342 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #697342; nudged cooler, #437540.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #577342?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 20.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #577342 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #577342 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#577342] or text-[#577342], 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 #577342 with 50% opacity?

rgba(87, 115, 66, 0.5), or #57734280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ABB9A1; over black, #2C3A21.

Is #577342 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #666633, ΔE2000 9.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #577342 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #577342?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #749A58, #577342 45%, #3D512E). For more colour, a short hue run to #376044 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #577342 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #577342 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.