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#6f8f44

a dark, soft green · neutral · closest name: Olive Drab

Token name suggestion: Dusk Basil

RGB
111, 143, 68
HSL
86°, 36%, 41%
CMYK
22, 0, 52, 44
Luminance
0.2344

#6f8f44 is a dark soft green, 86° on the wheel and 46/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (5.69:1). As text it scores 3.69:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Olive Drab, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(86 36% 41%)rgb(111 143 68)Base step 700AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #6f8f44 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#6f8f44
Hue
86°
green
Saturation
36%
soft
Lightness
41%
dark
Brightness
56%
HSV value
Perceived
50%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2344
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
46/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
5.69:1
Closest name
Olive Drab
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
43.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.608
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 18.2
Web-safe
#669933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue86° of 360°
Saturation36%
Lightness41%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #6f8f44.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool46% 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%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#6f8f44
HEX (8-digit)#6f8f44ff
RGBrgb(111, 143, 68)
RGBArgba(111, 143, 68, 1)
HSLhsl(86, 36%, 41%)
HSV / HSBhsv(86, 52%, 56%)
HWBhwb(86 27% 44%)
CMYKcmyk(22%, 0%, 52%, 44%)
LABlab(55.5 -24.3 36.0)
LCHlch(55.5 43.4 124.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.608 0.109 128.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(17.42, 23.44, 9.07)
Decimal7311172
Display P3color(display-p3 0.435 0.561 0.267)
Web-safe#669933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #6f8f44;
background-color: #6f8f44;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #6f8f44;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#6f8f44] bg-[#6f8f44]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #6f8f44;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.435, green: 0.561, blue: 0.267)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.435, green: 0.561, blue: 0.267, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#6F8F44</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF6F8F44)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF6F8F44)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(68, 143, 111)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(111, 143, 68)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(111, 143, 68)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 111, 143, 68)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4353f, 0.5608f, 0.2667f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{111,143,68}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #6f8f44 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #6f8f44 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#435629, #E2EBD6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #6f8f44 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: #F8F9F5;
  --brand-100: #F0F4EB;
  --brand-200: #DFE8D3;
  --brand-300: #CADBB3;
  --brand-400: #AFC98D;
  --brand-500: #95B767;
  --brand-600: #81A64F;
  --brand-700: #6f8f44;
  --brand-800: #566F35;
  --brand-900: #405129;
  --brand-950: #28331A;
  --brand: #6f8f44;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF5;
  --brand-border: #D8E5C8;
  --brand-hover: #5C7739;
  --brand-pressed: #4A5F2D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1D2414;
    --brand-ink: #E2EBD6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F9F5',
        100: '#F0F4EB',
        200: '#DFE8D3',
        300: '#CADBB3',
        400: '#AFC98D',
        500: '#95B767',
        600: '#81A64F',
        700: '#6f8f44',
        800: '#566F35',
        900: '#405129',
        950: '#28331A',
        DEFAULT: '#6f8f44',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F9F5,
  '100': #F0F4EB,
  '200': #DFE8D3,
  '300': #CADBB3,
  '400': #AFC98D,
  '500': #95B767,
  '600': #81A64F,
  '700': #6f8f44,
  '800': #566F35,
  '900': #405129,
  '950': #28331A,
);
$brand-base: #6f8f44;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F9F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F0F4EB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DFE8D3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CADBB3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#AFC98D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#95B767", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#81A64F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#6f8f44", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#566F35", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#405129", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#28331A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #6f8f44 · 5.69:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 3.69:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 5.69:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #6f8f44 as text scores 3.69:1 on white and 5.69:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #435629 at 2.19:1.

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
#627E3C · 4.60:1
AA on white−5% L
#627E3C
The quick fox
#4A5F2D · 7.08:1
AAA on white−14% L
#4A5F2D
The quick fox
#6f8f44 · 5.69:1
AA on blackalready passes
#6f8f44
The quick fox
#7FA44E · 7.32:1
AAA on black+6% L
#7FA44E

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6F8F44 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
#6f8f44 on white: 3.69:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#6f8f44 on black: 5.69:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #6f8f44 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #6f8f44.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White3.69:1AaAa
Slate 503.53:1AaAa
Slate 1003.37:1AaAa
Slate 2002.99:1AaAa
Slate 3002.49:1AaAa
Slate 4001.44:1AaAa
Slate 5001.29:1AaAa
Slate 6002.05:1AaAa
Slate 7002.80:1AaAa
Slate 8003.96:1AaAa
Slate 9004.84:1AaAa
Black5.69:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #95863D
deuteranopia · #918449
tritanopia · #72897E

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. #6f8f44 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.

#F8F9F5
#F0F4EB
#DFE8D3
#CADBB3
#AFC98D
#95B767
#81A64F
#6f8f44
#566F35
#405129
#28331A
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F8F9F5Darkest = 950 · #28331AText 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 0.027 128.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.044 128.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.065 128.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.085 128.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.100 128.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.109 128.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.109 128.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.103 128.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.092 128.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.076 128.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.060 128.4);
}

Colors that work with #6f8f44

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#F8FAF5
Tinted page background
Border#D8E5C8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#799B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#4F4093
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#435629
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F3F7EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1D2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#5C7739
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4A5F2D
Two steps down
Disabled#A5B68D
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7BA83F
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 #6f8f44

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

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • 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
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #435629
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
  • Weight59/100
  • 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#64448F
Analogous left#8F8A44
Analogous right#4A8F44
Split-complement 1#444A8F
Split-complement 2#8A448F
Triadic 1#446F8F
Triadic 2#8F446F
Tetradic#448F8A
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°86°

#6f8f44 sits at 86°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red43.5%
Green56.1%
Blue26.7%
R · 0–255
111
0x6f
G · 0–255
143
0x8f
B · 0–255
68
0x44

CMYK percentages

Cyan22.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow52.4%
Key (black)43.9%

Total ink coverage is 119%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#6f8f44 text on a black background

contrast 5.69:1

Card sample

#6f8f44 text on a white background

contrast 3.69:1

Card sample

#6f8f44 on grey

3.37:1

#6f8f44 on its own surface

3.51:1

#6f8f44 on its dark surface

4.33:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #6f8f44;
Background color
Panel with #6f8f44 background
background-color: #6f8f44;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #6f8f44;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(111, 143, 68, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(111, 143, 68, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #6f8f44;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #6f8f44, #448F4B);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6f8f44, #448F5E);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #6f8f44;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #6f8f44;
caret-color: #6f8f44;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #6f8f44;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F3F7EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #6f8f44;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#6f8f44 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #6f8f44 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(111, 143, 68, 0.5)
rgb(111 143 68 / 50%)
#6f8f4480
hsl(86 36% 41% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #6f8f44 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#6f8f441a#F1F4EC
20%#6f8f4433#E2E9DA
40%#6f8f4466#C5D2B4
60%#6f8f4499#A9BC8F
80%#6f8f44cc#8CA569

Gradients from #6f8f44

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, #8EB25E, #6f8f44 45%, #435629);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #6f8f44, #3A7A46);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6f8f44, #64448F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #9DBC73 0%, #6f8f44 45%, #435629 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8FAF5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #AFA157 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #4EA44F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #435629 0%, transparent 65%), #6f8f44;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #6f8f44

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.

#6f8f44 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 5.69:1.

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.

#6f8f44, answered

What color is #6f8f44?

#6f8f44 is a dark soft green, closest to Olive Drab (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 86° on the hue wheel with 36% saturation and 41% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #6f8f44?

rgb(111, 143, 68) — 111 red, 143 green and 68 blue out of 255, or 43.5% / 56.1% / 26.7% by channel.

What is #6f8f44 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(86, 36%, 41%) and hsv(86, 52%, 56%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #6f8f44 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2344 and perceived brightness is 50%, so black text on it reaches 5.69:1.

Should I use black or white text on #6f8f44?

Black. It scores 5.69:1 against #6f8f44, versus 3.69:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #6f8f44 accessible on a white background?

#6f8f44 on white scores 3.69:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #627E3C to reach 4.5:1, or #4A5F2D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #6f8f44?

#64448F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #444A8F and #8A448F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #6f8f44?

For interface work: #F8FAF5 as the surface, #D8E5C8 for borders, #799B4B for secondary text, #4F4093 as an accent and #435629 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #8F8A44 and #4A8F44 stays calm, while #64448F is the loudest partner.

What is #6f8f44 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(22%, 0%, 52%, 44%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #6f8f44 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 46 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #8B8F44; nudged cooler, #529142.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #6f8f44?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 18.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #6f8f44 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #6f8f44 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#6f8f44] or text-[#6f8f44], 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 #6f8f44 with 50% opacity?

rgba(111, 143, 68, 0.5), or #6f8f4480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B7C7A2; over black, #384822.

Is #6f8f44 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669933, ΔE2000 5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #6f8f44 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 #6f8f44?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #8EB25E, #6f8f44 45%, #435629). For more colour, a short hue run to #3A7A46 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #6f8f44 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #6f8f44 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.