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#6ec176

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

Token name suggestion: Signal Moss

RGB
110, 193, 118
HSL
126°, 40%, 59%
CMYK
43, 0, 39, 24
Luminance
0.4276

#6ec176 is a balanced soft green, 126° on the wheel and 65/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.55:1). As text it scores 2.20:1 on white — use #398641 instead. Nearest name is Medium Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(126 40% 59%)rgb(110 193 118)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #6ec176 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#6ec176
Hue
126°
green
Saturation
40%
soft
Lightness
59%
balanced
Brightness
76%
HSV value
Perceived
65%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4276
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
65/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
9.55:1
Closest name
Medium Sea Green
ΔE2000 6.5
Chroma
50.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.739
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 6.3
Web-safe
#66CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue126° of 360°
Saturation40%
Lightness59%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #6ec176.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool65% 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
Red8%
Green89%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#6ec176
HEX (8-digit)#6ec176ff
RGBrgb(110, 193, 118)
RGBArgba(110, 193, 118, 1)
HSLhsl(126, 40%, 59%)
HSV / HSBhsv(126, 43%, 76%)
HWBhwb(126 43% 24%)
CMYKcmyk(43%, 0%, 39%, 24%)
LABlab(71.4 -41.0 30.1)
LCHlch(71.4 50.8 143.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.739 0.134 146.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(28.77, 42.76, 23.87)
Decimal7258486
Display P3color(display-p3 0.431 0.757 0.463)
Web-safe#66CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #6ec176;
background-color: #6ec176;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #6ec176;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#6ec176] bg-[#6ec176]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #6ec176;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.431, green: 0.757, blue: 0.463)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.431, green: 0.757, blue: 0.463, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#6EC176</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF6EC176)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF6EC176)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(118, 193, 110)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(110, 193, 118)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(110, 193, 118)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 110, 193, 118)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4314f, 0.7569f, 0.4627f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{110,193,118}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #6ec176 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #6ec176 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#26592B, #D4EDD7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #6ec176 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: #F5FAF5;
  --brand-100: #EBF4EC;
  --brand-200: #D2EAD4;
  --brand-300: #B0DDB5;
  --brand-400: #89CD90;
  --brand-500: #6ec176;
  --brand-600: #49AB53;
  --brand-700: #3D8F45;
  --brand-800: #317237;
  --brand-900: #27542B;
  --brand-950: #18341B;
  --brand: #6ec176;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C6E7C9;
  --brand-hover: #55B65E;
  --brand-pressed: #45A24E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142415;
    --brand-ink: #D4EDD7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF5',
        100: '#EBF4EC',
        200: '#D2EAD4',
        300: '#B0DDB5',
        400: '#89CD90',
        500: '#6ec176',
        600: '#49AB53',
        700: '#3D8F45',
        800: '#317237',
        900: '#27542B',
        950: '#18341B',
        DEFAULT: '#6ec176',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF5,
  '100': #EBF4EC,
  '200': #D2EAD4,
  '300': #B0DDB5,
  '400': #89CD90,
  '500': #6ec176,
  '600': #49AB53,
  '700': #3D8F45,
  '800': #317237,
  '900': #27542B,
  '950': #18341B,
);
$brand-base: #6ec176;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF4EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D2EAD4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B0DDB5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#89CD90", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#6ec176", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#49AB53", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3D8F45", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#317237", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#27542B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#18341B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #6ec176 · 9.55:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.20:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.55:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #6ec176 as text scores 2.20:1 on white and 9.55:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #26592B at 3.75:1.

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
#398641 · 4.51:1
AA on white−22% L
#398641
The quick fox
#2A622F · 7.28:1
AAA on white−32% L
#2A622F
The quick fox
#6ec176 · 9.55:1
AA on blackalready passes
#6ec176
The quick fox
#6ec176 · 9.55:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#6ec176

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #47A650 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
#6ec176 on white: 2.20:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#6ec176 on black: 9.55:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #6ec176 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #6ec176.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.20:1AaAa
Slate 502.10:1AaAa
Slate 1002.01:1AaAa
Slate 2001.78:1AaAa
Slate 3001.48:1AaAa
Slate 4001.17:1AaAa
Slate 5002.16:1AaAa
Slate 6003.45:1AaAa
Slate 7004.71:1AaAa
Slate 8006.65:1AaAa
Slate 9008.12:1AaAa
Black9.55:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C3B471
deuteranopia · #B7AC7B
tritanopia · #62BDAE

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. #6ec176 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.

#F5FAF5
#EBF4EC
#D2EAD4
#B0DDB5
#89CD90
#6ec176
#49AB53
#3D8F45
#317237
#27542B
#18341B
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF5Darkest = 950 · #18341BText 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 0.034 146.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.054 146.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.081 146.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.105 146.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.123 146.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.134 146.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.134 146.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.126 146.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.113 146.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.094 146.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.074 146.2);
}

Colors that work with #6ec176

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#F4FAF5
Tinted page background
Border#C6E7C9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B52
Captions on the surface
Accent#B76AC5
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#26592B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDF7EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142415
Dark-mode background
Hover#55B65E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#45A24E
Two steps down
Disabled#C5DAC7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#73D07C
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 #6ec176

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 #26592B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #47A650

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
  • Weight41/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#C16EB9
Analogous left#8FC16E
Analogous right#6EC19F
Split-complement 1#9F6EC1
Split-complement 2#C16E8F
Triadic 1#766EC1
Triadic 2#C1766E
Tetradic#6E8FC1
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°126°

#6ec176 sits at 126°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red43.1%
Green75.7%
Blue46.3%
R · 0–255
110
0x6e
G · 0–255
193
0xc1
B · 0–255
118
0x76

CMYK percentages

Cyan43.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow38.9%
Key (black)24.3%

Total ink coverage is 106%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#6ec176 text on a black background

contrast 9.55:1

Card sample

#6ec176 text on a white background

contrast 2.20:1

Card sample

#6ec176 on grey

2.01:1

#6ec176 on its own surface

2.08:1

#6ec176 on its dark surface

7.39:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #6ec176;
Background color
Panel with #6ec176 background
background-color: #6ec176;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #6ec176;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(110, 193, 118, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(110, 193, 118, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #6ec176;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #6ec176, #6EC1AD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6ec176, #6EC0C1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #6ec176;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #6ec176;
caret-color: #6ec176;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #6ec176;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDF7EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #6ec176;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#6ec176 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #6ec176 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(110, 193, 118, 0.5)
rgb(110 193 118 / 50%)
#6ec17680
hsl(126 40% 59% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #6ec176 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#6ec1761a#F1F9F1
20%#6ec17633#E2F3E4
40%#6ec17666#C5E6C8
60%#6ec17699#A8DAAD
80%#6ec176cc#8BCD91

Gradients from #6ec176

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, #99D39E, #6ec176 45%, #26592B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #6ec176, #59B8A9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6ec176, #C16EB9);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #AEDCB3 0%, #6ec176 45%, #26592B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #B0D092 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #83CAB4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #26592B 0%, transparent 65%), #6ec176;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #6ec176

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.

#6ec176 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 9.55:1.

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.

#6ec176, answered

What color is #6ec176?

#6ec176 is a balanced soft green, closest to Medium Sea Green (ΔE2000 6.5). It sits at 126° on the hue wheel with 40% saturation and 59% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #6ec176?

rgb(110, 193, 118) — 110 red, 193 green and 118 blue out of 255, or 43.1% / 75.7% / 46.3% by channel.

What is #6ec176 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(126, 40%, 59%) and hsv(126, 43%, 76%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #6ec176 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4276 and perceived brightness is 65%, so black text on it reaches 9.55:1.

Should I use black or white text on #6ec176?

Black. It scores 9.55:1 against #6ec176, versus 2.20:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #6ec176 accessible on a white background?

#6ec176 on white scores 2.20:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #398641 to reach 4.5:1, or #2A622F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #6ec176?

#C16EB9 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9F6EC1 and #C16E8F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #6ec176?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C6E7C9 for borders, #4B9B52 for secondary text, #B76AC5 as an accent and #26592B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #8FC16E and #6EC19F stays calm, while #C16EB9 is the loudest partner.

What is #6ec176 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(43%, 0%, 39%, 24%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #6ec176 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 65 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #84C16E; nudged cooler, #6CC394.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #6ec176?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 6.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #6ec176 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #6ec176 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#6ec176] or text-[#6ec176], 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 #6ec176 with 50% opacity?

rgba(110, 193, 118, 0.5), or #6ec17680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B7E0BB; over black, #37613B.

Is #6ec176 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC66, ΔE2000 4.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #6ec176 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 #6ec176?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #99D39E, #6ec176 45%, #26592B). For more colour, a short hue run to #59B8A9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #6ec176 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #6ec176 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.