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#5eb37d

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

Token name suggestion: Studio Basil

RGB
94, 179, 125
HSL
142°, 36%, 54%
CMYK
48, 0, 30, 30
Luminance
0.3610

#5eb37d is a balanced soft green, 142° on the wheel and 72/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.22:1). As text it scores 2.55:1 on white — use #3D8256 instead. Nearest name is Medium Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(142 36% 54%)rgb(94 179 125)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #5eb37d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#5eb37d
Hue
142°
green
Saturation
36%
soft
Lightness
54%
balanced
Brightness
70%
HSV value
Perceived
60%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3610
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
72/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
8.22:1
Closest name
Medium Sea Green
ΔE2000 3.7
Chroma
42.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.699
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 5.4
Web-safe
#66CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue142° of 360°
Saturation36%
Lightness54%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #5eb37d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool72% 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
Red7%
Green89%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#5eb37d
HEX (8-digit)#5eb37dff
RGBrgb(94, 179, 125)
RGBArgba(94, 179, 125, 1)
HSLhsl(142, 36%, 54%)
HSV / HSBhsv(142, 47%, 70%)
HWBhwb(142 37% 30%)
CMYKcmyk(48%, 0%, 30%, 30%)
LABlab(66.6 -38.1 19.8)
LCHlch(66.6 42.9 152.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.699 0.116 154.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(24.44, 36.10, 25.08)
Decimal6206333
Display P3color(display-p3 0.369 0.702 0.490)
Web-safe#66CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #5eb37d;
background-color: #5eb37d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #5eb37d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#5eb37d] bg-[#5eb37d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #5eb37d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.369, green: 0.702, blue: 0.490)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.369, green: 0.702, blue: 0.490, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#5EB37D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF5EB37D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF5EB37D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(125, 179, 94)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(94, 179, 125)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(94, 179, 125)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 94, 179, 125)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3686f, 0.7020f, 0.4902f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{94,179,125}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #5eb37d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #5eb37d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#29573A, #D5EBDD);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #5eb37d 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: #F5F9F7;
  --brand-100: #EBF4EF;
  --brand-200: #D3E8DB;
  --brand-300: #B3DBC1;
  --brand-400: #8DC9A3;
  --brand-500: #5eb37d;
  --brand-600: #4EA66F;
  --brand-700: #418B5C;
  --brand-800: #346F4A;
  --brand-900: #295138;
  --brand-950: #1A3323;
  --brand: #5eb37d;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C8E5D2;
  --brand-hover: #4CA16B;
  --brand-pressed: #41895B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241A;
    --brand-ink: #D5EBDD;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5F9F7',
        100: '#EBF4EF',
        200: '#D3E8DB',
        300: '#B3DBC1',
        400: '#8DC9A3',
        500: '#5eb37d',
        600: '#4EA66F',
        700: '#418B5C',
        800: '#346F4A',
        900: '#295138',
        950: '#1A3323',
        DEFAULT: '#5eb37d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5F9F7,
  '100': #EBF4EF,
  '200': #D3E8DB,
  '300': #B3DBC1,
  '400': #8DC9A3,
  '500': #5eb37d,
  '600': #4EA66F,
  '700': #418B5C,
  '800': #346F4A,
  '900': #295138,
  '950': #1A3323,
);
$brand-base: #5eb37d;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5F9F7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF4EF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D3E8DB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B3DBC1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8DC9A3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5eb37d", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4EA66F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#418B5C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#346F4A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#295138", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1A3323", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #5eb37d · 8.22:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.55:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.22:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #5eb37d as text scores 2.55:1 on white and 8.22:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #29573A at 3.26:1.

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
#3D8256 · 4.64:1
AA on white−16% L
#3D8256
The quick fox
#2F6342 · 7.04:1
AAA on white−25% L
#2F6342
The quick fox
#5eb37d · 8.22:1
AA on blackalready passes
#5eb37d
The quick fox
#5eb37d · 8.22:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#5eb37d

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4EA56D 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
#5eb37d on white: 2.55:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#5eb37d on black: 8.22:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #5eb37d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #5eb37d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.55:1AaAa
Slate 502.44:1AaAa
Slate 1002.33:1AaAa
Slate 2002.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.72:1AaAa
Slate 4001.00:1AaAa
Slate 5001.86:1AaAa
Slate 6002.97:1AaAa
Slate 7004.05:1AaAa
Slate 8005.73:1AaAa
Slate 9006.99:1AaAa
Black8.22:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B3A77A
deuteranopia · #A69E80
tritanopia · #4AB1A5

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. #5eb37d 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.

#F5F9F7
#EBF4EF
#D3E8DB
#B3DBC1
#8DC9A3
#5eb37d
#4EA66F
#418B5C
#346F4A
#295138
#1A3323
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F5F9F7Darkest = 950 · #1A3323Text 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 0.029 154.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.046 154.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.069 154.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.090 154.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.106 154.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.116 154.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.116 154.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.109 154.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.097 154.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.081 154.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.064 154.2);
}

Colors that work with #5eb37d

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#F5FAF7
Tinted page background
Border#C8E5D2
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B68
Captions on the surface
Accent#B859AD
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#29573A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEF7F1
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241A
Dark-mode background
Hover#4CA16B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#41895B
Two steps down
Disabled#B3CEBD
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#61C485
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 #5eb37d

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #29573A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4EA56D

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 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
  • Weight47/100
  • 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#B35E94
Analogous left#69B35E
Analogous right#5EB3A7
Split-complement 1#A75EB3
Split-complement 2#B35E69
Triadic 1#7D5EB3
Triadic 2#B37D5E
Tetradic#5E69B3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°142°

#5eb37d sits at 142°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red36.9%
Green70.2%
Blue49.0%
R · 0–255
94
0x5e
G · 0–255
179
0xb3
B · 0–255
125
0x7d

CMYK percentages

Cyan47.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow30.2%
Key (black)29.8%

Total ink coverage is 108%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#5eb37d text on a black background

contrast 8.22:1

Card sample

#5eb37d text on a white background

contrast 2.55:1

Card sample

#5eb37d on grey

2.33:1

#5eb37d on its own surface

2.42:1

#5eb37d on its dark surface

6.34:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #5eb37d;
Background color
Panel with #5eb37d background
background-color: #5eb37d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #5eb37d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(94, 179, 125, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(94, 179, 125, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #5eb37d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #5eb37d, #5EB0B3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #5eb37d, #5E9BB3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #5eb37d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #5eb37d;
caret-color: #5eb37d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #5eb37d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEF7F1;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #5eb37d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#5eb37d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #5eb37d 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(94, 179, 125, 0.5)
rgb(94 179 125 / 50%)
#5eb37d80
hsl(142 36% 54% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #5eb37d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#5eb37d1a#EFF7F2
20%#5eb37d33#DFF0E5
40%#5eb37d66#BFE1CB
60%#5eb37d99#9ED1B1
80%#5eb37dcc#7EC297

Gradients from #5eb37d

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, #87C79E, #5eb37d 45%, #29573A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #5eb37d, #4E9BA5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #5eb37d, #B35E94);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #9CD0AF 0%, #5eb37d 45%, #29573A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #8FC381 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #73BDB9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #29573A 0%, transparent 65%), #5eb37d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #5eb37d

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.

#5eb37d 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 8.22:1.

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.

#5eb37d, answered

What color is #5eb37d?

#5eb37d is a balanced soft green, closest to Medium Sea Green (ΔE2000 3.7). It sits at 142° on the hue wheel with 36% saturation and 54% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #5eb37d?

rgb(94, 179, 125) — 94 red, 179 green and 125 blue out of 255, or 36.9% / 70.2% / 49% by channel.

What is #5eb37d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(142, 36%, 54%) and hsv(142, 47%, 70%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #5eb37d a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3610 and perceived brightness is 60%, so black text on it reaches 8.22:1.

Should I use black or white text on #5eb37d?

Black. It scores 8.22:1 against #5eb37d, versus 2.55:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #5eb37d accessible on a white background?

#5eb37d on white scores 2.55:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3D8256 to reach 4.5:1, or #2F6342 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #5eb37d?

#B35E94 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A75EB3 and #B35E69, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #5eb37d?

For interface work: #F5FAF7 as the surface, #C8E5D2 for borders, #4B9B68 for secondary text, #B859AD as an accent and #29573A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #69B35E and #5EB3A7 stays calm, while #B35E94 is the loudest partner.

What is #5eb37d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(48%, 0%, 30%, 30%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #5eb37d warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 72 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #5EB35E; nudged cooler, #5BB59D.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #5eb37d?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 5.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #5eb37d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #5eb37d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#5eb37d] or text-[#5eb37d], 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 #5eb37d with 50% opacity?

rgba(94, 179, 125, 0.5), or #5eb37d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #AFD9BE; over black, #2F5A3F.

Is #5eb37d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC66, ΔE2000 10.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #5eb37d 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 #5eb37d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #87C79E, #5eb37d 45%, #29573A). For more colour, a short hue run to #4E9BA5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #5eb37d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #5eb37d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.