Skip to content
green · cool

#70e2ac

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Jade

RGB
112, 226, 172
HSL
152°, 66%, 66%
CMYK
50, 0, 24, 11
Luminance
0.6082

#70e2ac is a light vivid green, 152° on the wheel and 76/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.16:1). As text it scores 1.60:1 on white — use #1B8553 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(152 66% 66%)rgb(112 226 172)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #70e2ac is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#70e2ac
Hue
152°
green
Saturation
66%
vivid
Lightness
66%
light
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6082
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
76/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.16:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 6.4
Chroma
47.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.831
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 11.6
Web-safe
#66CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue152° of 360°
Saturation66%
Lightness66%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #70e2ac.

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
Red6%
Green89%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#70e2ac
HEX (8-digit)#70e2acff
RGBrgb(112, 226, 172)
RGBArgba(112, 226, 172, 1)
HSLhsl(152, 66%, 66%)
HSV / HSBhsv(152, 50%, 89%)
HWBhwb(152 44% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(50%, 0%, 24%, 11%)
LABlab(82.3 -44.8 16.6)
LCHlch(82.3 47.8 159.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.831 0.131 161.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(41.32, 60.81, 48.58)
Decimal7398060
Display P3color(display-p3 0.439 0.886 0.675)
Web-safe#66CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #70e2ac;
background-color: #70e2ac;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #70e2ac;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#70e2ac] bg-[#70e2ac]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #70e2ac;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.439, green: 0.886, blue: 0.675)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.439, green: 0.886, blue: 0.675, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#70E2AC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF70E2AC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF70E2AC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(172, 226, 112)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(112, 226, 172)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(112, 226, 172)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 112, 226, 172)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4392f, 0.8863f, 0.6745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{112,226,172}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #70e2ac 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #70e2ac 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#156A42, #D3EEE1);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #70e2ac 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: #E8F8F0;
  --brand-200: #CBF1DF;
  --brand-300: #A2ECC9;
  --brand-400: #70e2ac;
  --brand-500: #44D993;
  --brand-600: #29CC7F;
  --brand-700: #22AA6A;
  --brand-800: #1B8854;
  --brand-900: #18633F;
  --brand-950: #0F3E27;
  --brand: #70e2ac;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD7;
  --brand-hover: #52DC9B;
  --brand-pressed: #35D68A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241C;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE1;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FBF8',
        100: '#E8F8F0',
        200: '#CBF1DF',
        300: '#A2ECC9',
        400: '#70e2ac',
        500: '#44D993',
        600: '#29CC7F',
        700: '#22AA6A',
        800: '#1B8854',
        900: '#18633F',
        950: '#0F3E27',
        DEFAULT: '#70e2ac',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FBF8,
  '100': #E8F8F0,
  '200': #CBF1DF,
  '300': #A2ECC9,
  '400': #70e2ac,
  '500': #44D993,
  '600': #29CC7F,
  '700': #22AA6A,
  '800': #1B8854,
  '900': #18633F,
  '950': #0F3E27,
);
$brand-base: #70e2ac;
$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": "#E8F8F0", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CBF1DF", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A2ECC9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#70e2ac", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#44D993", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#29CC7F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#22AA6A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1B8854", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#18633F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F3E27", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #70e2ac · 13.16:1
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 · 13.16:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #70e2ac as text scores 1.60:1 on white and 13.16:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #156A42 at 4.15:1.

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
#1B8553 · 4.64:1
AA on white−35% L
#1B8553
The quick fox
#14633E · 7.28:1
AAA on white−43% L
#14633E
The quick fox
#70e2ac · 13.16:1
AA on blackalready passes
#70e2ac
The quick fox
#70e2ac · 13.16:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#70e2ac

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #22A768 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
#70e2ac on white: 1.60:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#70e2ac on black: 13.16:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #70e2ac as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #70e2ac.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.60:1AaAa
Slate 501.52:1AaAa
Slate 1001.46:1AaAa
Slate 2001.29:1AaAa
Slate 3001.07:1AaAa
Slate 4001.61:1AaAa
Slate 5002.98:1AaAa
Slate 6004.75:1AaAa
Slate 7006.49:1AaAa
Slate 8009.17:1AaAa
Slate 90011.19:1AaAa
Black13.16:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DFD4A9
deuteranopia · #CEC8AF
tritanopia · #4BE1D3

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. #70e2ac 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
#E8F8F0
#CBF1DF
#A2ECC9
#70e2ac
#44D993
#29CC7F
#22AA6A
#1B8854
#18633F
#0F3E27
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F3FBF8Darkest = 950 · #0F3E27Text 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 0.033 161.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.052 161.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.078 161.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.102 161.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.120 161.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.131 161.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.131 161.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.123 161.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.110 161.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.092 161.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.072 161.0);
}

Colors that work with #70e2ac

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#C0EDD7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B75
Captions on the surface
Accent#AD1F86
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#156A42
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFBF3
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241C
Dark-mode background
Hover#52DC9B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#35D68A
Two steps down
Disabled#DBE8E2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#79EDB6
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #70e2ac

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 #156A42
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #22A768

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
  • Weight34/100
  • 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#E270A6
Analogous left#70E273
Analogous right#70DFE2
Split-complement 1#E270DF
Split-complement 2#E27370
Triadic 1#AC70E2
Triadic 2#E2AC70
Tetradic#7370E2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°152°

#70e2ac sits at 152°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red43.9%
Green88.6%
Blue67.5%
R · 0–255
112
0x70
G · 0–255
226
0xe2
B · 0–255
172
0xac

CMYK percentages

Cyan50.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow23.9%
Key (black)11.4%

Total ink coverage is 86%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#70e2ac text on a black background

contrast 13.16:1

Card sample

#70e2ac text on a white background

contrast 1.60:1

Card sample

#70e2ac on grey

1.46:1

#70e2ac on its own surface

1.51:1

#70e2ac on its dark surface

10.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #70e2ac;
Background color
Panel with #70e2ac background
background-color: #70e2ac;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #70e2ac;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(112, 226, 172, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(112, 226, 172, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #70e2ac;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #70e2ac, #70CCE2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #70e2ac, #70B0E2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #70e2ac;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #70e2ac;
caret-color: #70e2ac;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #70e2ac;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFBF3;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #70e2ac;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#70e2ac 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #70e2ac 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, 226, 172, 0.5)
rgb(112 226 172 / 50%)
#70e2ac80
hsl(152 66% 66% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #70e2ac 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#70e2ac1a#F1FCF7
20%#70e2ac33#E2F9EE
40%#70e2ac66#C6F3DE
60%#70e2ac99#A9EECD
80%#70e2accc#8DE8BD

Gradients from #70e2ac

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, #A3ECCA, #70e2ac 45%, #156A42);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #70e2ac, #57B8DD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #70e2ac, #E270A6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BCF2D8 0%, #70e2ac 45%, #156A42 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%, #9FEB9A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8ADDE7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #156A42 0%, transparent 65%), #70e2ac;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #70e2ac

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.

#70e2ac 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 13.16:1.

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.

#70e2ac, answered

What color is #70e2ac?

#70e2ac is a light vivid green, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 6.4). It sits at 152° on the hue wheel with 66% saturation and 66% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #70e2ac?

rgb(112, 226, 172) — 112 red, 226 green and 172 blue out of 255, or 43.9% / 88.6% / 67.5% by channel.

What is #70e2ac in HSL and HSV?

hsl(152, 66%, 66%) and hsv(152, 50%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #70e2ac a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6082 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 13.16:1.

Should I use black or white text on #70e2ac?

Black. It scores 13.16:1 against #70e2ac, versus 1.60:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #70e2ac accessible on a white background?

#70e2ac on white scores 1.60:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1B8553 to reach 4.5:1, or #14633E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #70e2ac?

#E270A6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E270DF and #E27370, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #70e2ac?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDD7 for borders, #4B9B75 for secondary text, #AD1F86 as an accent and #156A42 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #70E273 and #70DFE2 stays calm, while #E270A6 is the loudest partner.

What is #70e2ac in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(50%, 0%, 24%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #70e2ac 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 #70E282; nudged cooler, #6EE4D7.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #70e2ac?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 11.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #70e2ac as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #70e2ac in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#70e2ac] or text-[#70e2ac], 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 #70e2ac with 50% opacity?

rgba(112, 226, 172, 0.5), or #70e2ac80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B8F1D6; over black, #387156.

Is #70e2ac 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 #70e2ac 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 #70e2ac?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A3ECCA, #70e2ac 45%, #156A42). For more colour, a short hue run to #57B8DD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #70e2ac in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #70e2ac at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.