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#5fd005

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Fern

RGB
95, 208, 5
HSL
93°, 95%, 42%
CMYK
54, 0, 98, 18
Luminance
0.4756

#5fd005 is a dark electric green, 93° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.51:1). As text it scores 2.00:1 on white — use #3D8503 instead. Nearest name is Lime Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(93 95% 42%)rgb(95 208 5)Base step 700AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #5fd005 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#5fd005
Hue
93°
green
Saturation
95%
electric
Lightness
42%
dark
Brightness
82%
HSV value
Perceived
66%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4756
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
10.51:1
Closest name
Lime Green
ΔE2000 4.7
Chroma
94.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.761
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 4.3
Web-safe
#66CC00
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue93° of 360°
Saturation95%
Lightness42%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #5fd005.

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
Red5%
Green95%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#5fd005
HEX (8-digit)#5fd005ff
RGBrgb(95, 208, 5)
RGBArgba(95, 208, 5, 1)
HSLhsl(93, 95%, 42%)
HSV / HSBhsv(93, 98%, 82%)
HWBhwb(93 2% 18%)
CMYKcmyk(54%, 0%, 98%, 18%)
LABlab(74.5 -60.4 72.8)
LCHlch(74.5 94.5 129.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.761 0.230 137.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(27.30, 47.55, 7.88)
Decimal6279173
Display P3color(display-p3 0.373 0.816 0.020)
Web-safe#66CC00

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #5fd005;
background-color: #5fd005;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #5fd005;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#5fd005] bg-[#5fd005]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #5fd005;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.373, green: 0.816, blue: 0.020)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.373, green: 0.816, blue: 0.020, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#5FD005</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF5FD005)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF5FD005)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(5, 208, 95)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(95, 208, 5)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(95, 208, 5)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 95, 208, 5)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3725f, 0.8157f, 0.0196f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{95,208,5}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #5fd005 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #5fd005 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#397D03, #DFEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #5fd005 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: #F7FDF1;
  --brand-100: #EEFCE4;
  --brand-200: #DBFAC2;
  --brand-300: #C1FC91;
  --brand-400: #A2FB5B;
  --brand-500: #83FA24;
  --brand-600: #6DEF06;
  --brand-700: #5fd005;
  --brand-800: #499F04;
  --brand-900: #377308;
  --brand-950: #224805;
  --brand: #5fd005;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D4EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #4FAD04;
  --brand-pressed: #3F8A03;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2414;
    --brand-ink: #DFEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FDF1',
        100: '#EEFCE4',
        200: '#DBFAC2',
        300: '#C1FC91',
        400: '#A2FB5B',
        500: '#83FA24',
        600: '#6DEF06',
        700: '#5fd005',
        800: '#499F04',
        900: '#377308',
        950: '#224805',
        DEFAULT: '#5fd005',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FDF1,
  '100': #EEFCE4,
  '200': #DBFAC2,
  '300': #C1FC91,
  '400': #A2FB5B,
  '500': #83FA24,
  '600': #6DEF06,
  '700': #5fd005,
  '800': #499F04,
  '900': #377308,
  '950': #224805,
);
$brand-base: #5fd005;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FDF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEFCE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DBFAC2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C1FC91", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A2FB5B", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#83FA24", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6DEF06", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5fd005", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#499F04", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#377308", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#224805", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #5fd005 · 10.51:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.00:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.51:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #5fd005 as text scores 2.00:1 on white and 10.51:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #397D03 at 2.56:1.

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
#3D8503 · 4.61:1
AA on white−15% L
#3D8503
The quick fox
#2D6302 · 7.25:1
AAA on white−22% L
#2D6302
The quick fox
#5fd005 · 10.51:1
AA on blackalready passes
#5fd005
The quick fox
#5fd005 · 10.51:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#5fd005

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4DA804 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
#5fd005 on white: 2.00:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#5fd005 on black: 10.51:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #5fd005 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #5fd005.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.00:1AaAa
Slate 501.91:1AaAa
Slate 1001.82:1AaAa
Slate 2001.62:1AaAa
Slate 3001.35:1AaAa
Slate 4001.28:1AaAa
Slate 5002.38:1AaAa
Slate 6003.79:1AaAa
Slate 7005.18:1AaAa
Slate 8007.32:1AaAa
Slate 9008.94:1AaAa
Black10.51:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D7BD00
deuteranopia · #C9B42E
tritanopia · #57C8B1

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. #5fd005 is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7FDF1
#EEFCE4
#DBFAC2
#C1FC91
#A2FB5B
#83FA24
#6DEF06
#5fd005
#499F04
#377308
#224805
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F7FDF1Darkest = 950 · #224805Text 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 0.057 137.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.092 137.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.138 137.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.179 137.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.211 137.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.230 137.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.230 137.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.216 137.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.193 137.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.161 137.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.126 137.1);
}

Colors that work with #5fd005

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#F7FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#D4EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6E9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#4201D4
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#397D03
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1FEE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#4FAD04
One step down in lightness
Pressed#3F8A03
Two steps down
Disabled#A0B78E
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#68EA00
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 #5fd005

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
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #397D03
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4DA804

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 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
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight58/100
  • 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#7605D0
Analogous left#C5D005
Analogous right#05D011
Split-complement 1#1105D0
Split-complement 2#D005C5
Triadic 1#055FD0
Triadic 2#D0055F
Tetradic#05C5D0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°93°

#5fd005 sits at 93°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red37.3%
Green81.6%
Blue2.0%
R · 0–255
95
0x5f
G · 0–255
208
0xd0
B · 0–255
5
0x05

CMYK percentages

Cyan54.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow97.6%
Key (black)18.4%

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

Color previews

#5fd005 text on a black background

contrast 10.51:1

Card sample

#5fd005 text on a white background

contrast 2.00:1

Card sample

#5fd005 on grey

1.82:1

#5fd005 on its own surface

1.90:1

#5fd005 on its dark surface

8.03:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #5fd005;
Background color
Panel with #5fd005 background
background-color: #5fd005;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #5fd005;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(95, 208, 5, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(95, 208, 5, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #5fd005;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #5fd005, #05D032);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #5fd005, #05D065);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #5fd005;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #5fd005;
caret-color: #5fd005;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #5fd005;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1FEE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #5fd005;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#5fd005 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #5fd005 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(95, 208, 5, 0.5)
rgb(95 208 5 / 50%)
#5fd00580
hsl(93 95% 42% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #5fd005 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#5fd0051a#EFFAE6
20%#5fd00533#DFF6CD
40%#5fd00566#BFEC9B
60%#5fd00599#9FE369
80%#5fd005cc#7FD937

Gradients from #5fd005

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, #7CF919, #5fd005 45%, #397D03);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #5fd005, #04B23A);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #5fd005, #7605D0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8DFA37 0%, #5fd005 45%, #397D03 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F9F30F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #06EE26 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #397D03 0%, transparent 65%), #5fd005;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #5fd005

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.

#5fd005 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 10.51:1.

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.

#5fd005, answered

What color is #5fd005?

#5fd005 is a dark electric green, closest to Lime Green (ΔE2000 4.7). It sits at 93° on the hue wheel with 95% saturation and 42% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #5fd005?

rgb(95, 208, 5) — 95 red, 208 green and 5 blue out of 255, or 37.3% / 81.6% / 2% by channel.

What is #5fd005 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(93, 95%, 42%) and hsv(93, 98%, 82%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #5fd005 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4756 and perceived brightness is 66%, so black text on it reaches 10.51:1.

Should I use black or white text on #5fd005?

Black. It scores 10.51:1 against #5fd005, versus 2.00:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #5fd005 accessible on a white background?

#5fd005 on white scores 2.00:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3D8503 to reach 4.5:1, or #2D6302 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #5fd005?

#7605D0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #1105D0 and #D005C5, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #5fd005?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D4EDC0 for borders, #6E9B4B for secondary text, #4201D4 as an accent and #397D03 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C5D005 and #05D011 stays calm, while #7605D0 is the loudest partner.

What is #5fd005 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(54%, 0%, 98%, 18%). 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 #5fd005 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 #AAD005; nudged cooler, #13D203.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #5fd005?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 4.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #5fd005 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #5fd005 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#5fd005] or text-[#5fd005], 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 #5fd005 with 50% opacity?

rgba(95, 208, 5, 0.5), or #5fd00580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #AFE882; over black, #306803.

Is #5fd005 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC00, ΔE2000 1.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #5fd005 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 #5fd005?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #7CF919, #5fd005 45%, #397D03). For more colour, a short hue run to #04B23A keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #5fd005 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #5fd005 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.