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#6ce2ad

a light, vivid green · cool · closest name: Medium Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Linen Jade

RGB
108, 226, 173
HSL
153°, 67%, 66%
CMYK
52, 0, 24, 11
Luminance
0.6060

#6ce2ad is a light vivid green, 153° on the wheel and 76/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.12:1). As text it scores 1.60:1 on white — use #1B8656 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(153 67% 66%)rgb(108 226 173)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #6ce2ad is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#6ce2ad
Hue
153°
green
Saturation
67%
vivid
Lightness
66%
light
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
75%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6060
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
76/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.12:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 6.2
Chroma
48.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.830
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 11.5
Web-safe
#66CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue153° of 360°
Saturation67%
Lightness66%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #6ce2ad.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool76% 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
Red5%
Green90%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#6ce2ad
HEX (8-digit)#6ce2adff
RGBrgb(108, 226, 173)
RGBArgba(108, 226, 173, 1)
HSLhsl(153, 67%, 66%)
HSV / HSBhsv(153, 52%, 89%)
HWBhwb(153 42% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(52%, 0%, 24%, 11%)
LABlab(82.2 -45.6 15.9)
LCHlch(82.2 48.3 160.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.830 0.132 162.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(40.92, 60.59, 49.07)
Decimal7135917
Display P3color(display-p3 0.424 0.886 0.678)
Web-safe#66CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #6ce2ad;
background-color: #6ce2ad;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #6ce2ad;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#6ce2ad] bg-[#6ce2ad]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #6ce2ad;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.424, green: 0.886, blue: 0.678)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.424, green: 0.886, blue: 0.678, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#6CE2AD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF6CE2AD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF6CE2AD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(173, 226, 108)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(108, 226, 173)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(108, 226, 173)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 108, 226, 173)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4235f, 0.8863f, 0.6784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{108,226,173}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #6ce2ad 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #6ce2ad 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#156A44, #D3EEE2);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #6ce2ad 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: #F3FBF8;
  --brand-100: #E8F8F1;
  --brand-200: #CAF1E0;
  --brand-300: #A1ECCB;
  --brand-400: #6ce2ad;
  --brand-500: #44DA97;
  --brand-600: #28CC83;
  --brand-700: #22AA6D;
  --brand-800: #1B8857;
  --brand-900: #176341;
  --brand-950: #0F3E29;
  --brand: #6ce2ad;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD9;
  --brand-hover: #4EDC9D;
  --brand-pressed: #30D68C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241D;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE2;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FBF8',
        100: '#E8F8F1',
        200: '#CAF1E0',
        300: '#A1ECCB',
        400: '#6ce2ad',
        500: '#44DA97',
        600: '#28CC83',
        700: '#22AA6D',
        800: '#1B8857',
        900: '#176341',
        950: '#0F3E29',
        DEFAULT: '#6ce2ad',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FBF8,
  '100': #E8F8F1,
  '200': #CAF1E0,
  '300': #A1ECCB,
  '400': #6ce2ad,
  '500': #44DA97,
  '600': #28CC83,
  '700': #22AA6D,
  '800': #1B8857,
  '900': #176341,
  '950': #0F3E29,
);
$brand-base: #6ce2ad;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FBF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F8F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CAF1E0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A1ECCB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6ce2ad", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#44DA97", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#28CC83", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#22AA6D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1B8857", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#176341", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F3E29", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #6ce2ad · 13.12:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.60:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.12:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #6ce2ad as text scores 1.60:1 on white and 13.12:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #156A44 at 4.13:1.

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
#1B8656 · 4.57:1
AA on white−34% L
#1B8656
The quick fox
#146440 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−42% L
#146440
The quick fox
#6ce2ad · 13.12:1
AA on blackalready passes
#6ce2ad
The quick fox
#6ce2ad · 13.12:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#6ce2ad

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #21A86C 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
#6ce2ad on white: 1.60:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#6ce2ad on black: 13.12:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #6ce2ad as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #6ce2ad.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.60:1AaAa
Slate 501.53:1AaAa
Slate 1001.46:1AaAa
Slate 2001.30:1AaAa
Slate 3001.08:1AaAa
Slate 4001.60:1AaAa
Slate 5002.97:1AaAa
Slate 6004.73:1AaAa
Slate 7006.47:1AaAa
Slate 8009.14:1AaAa
Slate 90011.15:1AaAa
Black13.12:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DFD4AA
deuteranopia · #CEC7B0
tritanopia · #42E2D3

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. #6ce2ad is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FBF8
#E8F8F1
#CAF1E0
#A1ECCB
#6ce2ad
#44DA97
#28CC83
#22AA6D
#1B8857
#176341
#0F3E29
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F3FBF8Darkest = 950 · #0F3E29Text 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 0.033 162.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.053 162.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.079 162.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.103 162.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.122 162.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.132 162.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.132 162.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.124 162.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.111 162.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.093 162.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.073 162.1);
}

Colors that work with #6ce2ad

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#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDD9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B77
Captions on the surface
Accent#AE1E83
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#156A44
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFBF3
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241D
Dark-mode background
Hover#4EDC9D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#30D68C
Two steps down
Disabled#D8E6E0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#75EDB7
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 #6ce2ad

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
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • 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
  • White 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 #156A44
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #21A86C

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight35/100
  • 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#E26CA1
Analogous left#6CE272
Analogous right#6CDCE2
Split-complement 1#E26CDC
Split-complement 2#E2726C
Triadic 1#AD6CE2
Triadic 2#E2AD6C
Tetradic#726CE2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°153°

#6ce2ad sits at 153°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red42.4%
Green88.6%
Blue67.8%
R · 0–255
108
0x6c
G · 0–255
226
0xe2
B · 0–255
173
0xad

CMYK percentages

Cyan52.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow23.5%
Key (black)11.4%

Total ink coverage is 87%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#6ce2ad text on a black background

contrast 13.12:1

Card sample

#6ce2ad text on a white background

contrast 1.60:1

Card sample

#6ce2ad on grey

1.46:1

#6ce2ad on its own surface

1.52:1

#6ce2ad on its dark surface

10.09:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #6ce2ad;
Background color
Panel with #6ce2ad background
background-color: #6ce2ad;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #6ce2ad;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(108, 226, 173, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(108, 226, 173, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #6ce2ad;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #6ce2ad, #6CC8E2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6ce2ad, #6CABE2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #6ce2ad;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #6ce2ad;
caret-color: #6ce2ad;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #6ce2ad;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFBF3;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #6ce2ad;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#6ce2ad 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #6ce2ad 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(108, 226, 173, 0.5)
rgb(108 226 173 / 50%)
#6ce2ad80
hsl(153 67% 66% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #6ce2ad 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#6ce2ad1a#F0FCF7
20%#6ce2ad33#E2F9EF
40%#6ce2ad66#C4F3DE
60%#6ce2ad99#A7EECE
80%#6ce2adcc#89E8BD

Gradients from #6ce2ad

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, #9FECCA, #6ce2ad 45%, #156A44);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #6ce2ad, #53B3DD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6ce2ad, #E26CA1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B9F1D8 0%, #6ce2ad 45%, #156A44 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #99EA97 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #86DAE7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #156A44 0%, transparent 65%), #6ce2ad;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #6ce2ad

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.

#6ce2ad 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 13.12:1.

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.

#6ce2ad, answered

What color is #6ce2ad?

#6ce2ad is a light vivid green, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 6.2). It sits at 153° on the hue wheel with 67% saturation and 66% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #6ce2ad?

rgb(108, 226, 173) — 108 red, 226 green and 173 blue out of 255, or 42.4% / 88.6% / 67.8% by channel.

What is #6ce2ad in HSL and HSV?

hsl(153, 67%, 66%) and hsv(153, 52%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #6ce2ad a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6060 and perceived brightness is 75%, so black text on it reaches 13.12:1.

Should I use black or white text on #6ce2ad?

Black. It scores 13.12:1 against #6ce2ad, versus 1.60:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #6ce2ad accessible on a white background?

#6ce2ad on white scores 1.60:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1B8656 to reach 4.5:1, or #146440 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #6ce2ad?

#E26CA1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E26CDC and #E2726C, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #6ce2ad?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDD9 for borders, #4B9B77 for secondary text, #AE1E83 as an accent and #156A44 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #6CE272 and #6CDCE2 stays calm, while #E26CA1 is the loudest partner.

What is #6ce2ad in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(52%, 0%, 24%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #6ce2ad warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 76 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #6CE282; nudged cooler, #6AE4DA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #6ce2ad?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 11.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #6ce2ad as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #6ce2ad in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#6ce2ad] or text-[#6ce2ad], 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 #6ce2ad with 50% opacity?

rgba(108, 226, 173, 0.5), or #6ce2ad80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B6F1D6; over black, #367157.

Is #6ce2ad a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC99, ΔE2000 5.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #6ce2ad 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 #6ce2ad?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9FECCA, #6ce2ad 45%, #156A44). For more colour, a short hue run to #53B3DD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #6ce2ad in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #6ce2ad at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.