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#708721

a dark, vivid green · warm · closest name: Olive Drab

Token name suggestion: Shadow Basil

RGB
112, 135, 33
HSL
74°, 61%, 33%
CMYK
17, 0, 76, 47
Luminance
0.2088

#708721 is a dark vivid green, 74° on the wheel and 36/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (5.18:1). As text it scores 4.06:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Olive Drab, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(74 61% 33%)rgb(112 135 33)Base step 800AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #708721 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#708721
Hue
74°
green
Saturation
61%
vivid
Lightness
33%
dark
Brightness
53%
HSV value
Perceived
47%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2088
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
36/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
5.18:1
Closest name
Olive Drab
ΔE2000 3.1
Chroma
53.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.586
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 20.5
Web-safe
#669933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue74° of 360°
Saturation61%
Lightness33%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #708721.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool36% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red16%
Green83%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#708721
HEX (8-digit)#708721ff
RGBrgb(112, 135, 33)
RGBArgba(112, 135, 33, 1)
HSLhsl(74, 61%, 33%)
HSV / HSBhsv(74, 76%, 53%)
HWBhwb(74 13% 47%)
CMYKcmyk(17%, 0%, 76%, 47%)
LABlab(52.8 -22.8 48.8)
LCHlch(52.8 53.8 115.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.586 0.127 121.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(15.62, 20.88, 4.65)
Decimal7374625
Display P3color(display-p3 0.439 0.529 0.129)
Web-safe#669933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #708721;
background-color: #708721;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #708721;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#708721] bg-[#708721]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #708721;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.439, green: 0.529, blue: 0.129)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.439, green: 0.529, blue: 0.129, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#708721</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF708721)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF708721)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(33, 135, 112)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(112, 135, 33)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(112, 135, 33)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 112, 135, 33)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4392f, 0.5294f, 0.1294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{112,135,33}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #708721 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #708721 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#556619, #E8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #708721 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: #F9FBF4;
  --brand-100: #F4F7E8;
  --brand-200: #E8F0CC;
  --brand-300: #DAE9A5;
  --brand-400: #C7DE78;
  --brand-500: #B4D34B;
  --brand-600: #A3C530;
  --brand-700: #88A428;
  --brand-800: #708721;
  --brand-900: #505F1B;
  --brand-950: #323C11;
  --brand: #708721;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E3EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #586A1A;
  --brand-pressed: #404D13;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #212414;
    --brand-ink: #E8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF4',
        100: '#F4F7E8',
        200: '#E8F0CC',
        300: '#DAE9A5',
        400: '#C7DE78',
        500: '#B4D34B',
        600: '#A3C530',
        700: '#88A428',
        800: '#708721',
        900: '#505F1B',
        950: '#323C11',
        DEFAULT: '#708721',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF4,
  '100': #F4F7E8,
  '200': #E8F0CC,
  '300': #DAE9A5,
  '400': #C7DE78,
  '500': #B4D34B,
  '600': #A3C530,
  '700': #88A428,
  '800': #708721,
  '900': #505F1B,
  '950': #323C11,
);
$brand-base: #708721;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4F7E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8F0CC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DAE9A5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C7DE78", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B4D34B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A3C530", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#88A428", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#708721", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#505F1B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#323C11", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #708721 · 5.18:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.06:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 5.18:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #708721 as text scores 4.06:1 on white and 5.18:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #556619 at 1.57:1.

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
#697F1F · 4.51:1
AA on white−2% L
#697F1F
The quick fox
#4E5E17 · 7.15:1
AAA on white−10% L
#4E5E17
The quick fox
#708721 · 5.18:1
AA on blackalready passes
#708721
The quick fox
#88A428 · 7.39:1
AAA on black+7% L
#88A428

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #708721 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
#708721 on white: 4.06:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#708721 on black: 5.18:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #708721 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #708721.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.06:1AaAa
Slate 503.88:1AaAa
Slate 1003.70:1AaAa
Slate 2003.29:1AaAa
Slate 3002.73:1AaAa
Slate 4001.58:1AaAa
Slate 5001.17:1AaAa
Slate 6001.87:1AaAa
Slate 7002.55:1AaAa
Slate 8003.61:1AaAa
Slate 9004.40:1AaAa
Black5.18:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #8F7F0C
deuteranopia · #8D7E2A
tritanopia · #768073

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. #708721 is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9FBF4
#F4F7E8
#E8F0CC
#DAE9A5
#C7DE78
#B4D34B
#A3C530
#88A428
#708721
#505F1B
#323C11
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF4Darkest = 950 · #323C11Text 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 0.032 121.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.051 121.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.076 121.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.099 121.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.117 121.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.127 121.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.127 121.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.120 121.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.107 121.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.089 121.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.070 121.7);
}

Colors that work with #708721

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#F9FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E3EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#899B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1E208A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#556619
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7FAEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#212414
Dark-mode background
Hover#586A1A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#404D13
Two steps down
Disabled#9AA573
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#83A11C
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 #708721

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
  • 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
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • 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
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #556619
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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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-high
  • Weight67/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

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#382187
Analogous left#876B21
Analogous right#3D8721
Split-complement 1#213D87
Split-complement 2#6B2187
Triadic 1#217087
Triadic 2#872170
Tetradic#21876B
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°74°

#708721 sits at 74°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red43.9%
Green52.9%
Blue12.9%
R · 0–255
112
0x70
G · 0–255
135
0x87
B · 0–255
33
0x21

CMYK percentages

Cyan17.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow75.6%
Key (black)47.1%

Total ink coverage is 140%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#708721 text on a black background

contrast 5.18:1

Card sample

#708721 text on a white background

contrast 4.06:1

Card sample

#708721 on grey

3.70:1

#708721 on its own surface

3.87:1

#708721 on its dark surface

3.90:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #708721;
Background color
Panel with #708721 background
background-color: #708721;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #708721;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(112, 135, 33, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(112, 135, 33, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #708721;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #708721, #2C8721);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #708721, #21872F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #708721;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #708721;
caret-color: #708721;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #708721;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7FAEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #708721;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#708721 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #708721 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(112, 135, 33, 0.5)
rgb(112 135 33 / 50%)
#70872180
hsl(74 61% 33% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #708721 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7087211a#F1F3E9
20%#70872133#E2E7D3
40%#70872166#C6CFA6
60%#70872199#A9B77A
80%#708721cc#8D9F4D

Gradients from #708721

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, #99B82D, #708721 45%, #556619);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #708721, #1D6E1B);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #708721, #382187);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #ACCE36 0%, #708721 45%, #556619 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #B0802B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #3E9F27 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #556619 0%, transparent 65%), #708721;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #708721

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.

#708721 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 5.18:1.

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.

#708721, answered

What color is #708721?

#708721 is a dark vivid green, closest to Olive Drab (ΔE2000 3.1). It sits at 74° on the hue wheel with 61% saturation and 33% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #708721?

rgb(112, 135, 33) — 112 red, 135 green and 33 blue out of 255, or 43.9% / 52.9% / 12.9% by channel.

What is #708721 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(74, 61%, 33%) and hsv(74, 76%, 53%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #708721 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2088 and perceived brightness is 47%, so black text on it reaches 5.18:1.

Should I use black or white text on #708721?

Black. It scores 5.18:1 against #708721, versus 4.06:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #708721 accessible on a white background?

#708721 on white scores 4.06:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #697F1F to reach 4.5:1, or #4E5E17 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #708721?

#382187 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #213D87 and #6B2187, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #708721?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E3EDC0 for borders, #899B4B for secondary text, #1E208A as an accent and #556619 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #876B21 and #3D8721 stays calm, while #382187 is the loudest partner.

What is #708721 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(17%, 0%, 76%, 47%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #708721 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 36 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #877821; nudged cooler, #4A881F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #708721?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 20.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #708721 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #708721 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#708721] or text-[#708721], 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 #708721 with 50% opacity?

rgba(112, 135, 33, 0.5), or #70872180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B8C390; over black, #384411.

Is #708721 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669933, ΔE2000 7.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #708721 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 #708721?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #99B82D, #708721 45%, #556619). For more colour, a short hue run to #1D6E1B keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #708721 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #708721 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.