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#728239

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Jade

RGB
114, 130, 57
HSL
73°, 39%, 37%
CMYK
12, 0, 56, 49
Luminance
0.1984

#728239 is a dark soft green, 73° on the wheel and 36/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.97:1). As text it scores 4.23:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Olive Drab, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(73 39% 37%)rgb(114 130 57)Base step 700AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #728239 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#728239
Hue
73°
green
Saturation
39%
soft
Lightness
37%
dark
Brightness
51%
HSV value
Perceived
47%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1984
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
36/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
4.97:1
Closest name
Olive Drab
ΔE2000 6.2
Chroma
40.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.577
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 22
Web-safe
#669933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue73° of 360°
Saturation39%
Lightness37%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #728239.

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
Red18%
Green80%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#728239
HEX (8-digit)#728239ff
RGBrgb(114, 130, 57)
RGBArgba(114, 130, 57, 1)
HSLhsl(73, 39%, 37%)
HSV / HSBhsv(73, 56%, 51%)
HWBhwb(73 22% 49%)
CMYKcmyk(12%, 0%, 56%, 49%)
LABlab(51.6 -17.5 37.0)
LCHlch(51.6 40.9 115.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.577 0.100 119.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(15.66, 19.84, 6.87)
Decimal7504441
Display P3color(display-p3 0.447 0.510 0.224)
Web-safe#669933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #728239;
background-color: #728239;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #728239;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#728239] bg-[#728239]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #728239;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.447, green: 0.510, blue: 0.224)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.447, green: 0.510, blue: 0.224, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#728239</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF728239)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF728239)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(57, 130, 114)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(114, 130, 57)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(114, 130, 57)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 114, 130, 57)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4471f, 0.5098f, 0.2235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{114,130,57}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #728239 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #728239 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4E5927, #E7ECD4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #728239 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: #F9FAF5;
  --brand-100: #F2F4EB;
  --brand-200: #E4E9D2;
  --brand-300: #D3DDB1;
  --brand-400: #BDCC8A;
  --brand-500: #A7BB63;
  --brand-600: #95AA4B;
  --brand-700: #728239;
  --brand-800: #637132;
  --brand-900: #495327;
  --brand-950: #2E3419;
  --brand: #728239;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DFE6C6;
  --brand-hover: #5C692E;
  --brand-pressed: #475023;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #212414;
    --brand-ink: #E7ECD4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FAF5',
        100: '#F2F4EB',
        200: '#E4E9D2',
        300: '#D3DDB1',
        400: '#BDCC8A',
        500: '#A7BB63',
        600: '#95AA4B',
        700: '#728239',
        800: '#637132',
        900: '#495327',
        950: '#2E3419',
        DEFAULT: '#728239',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FAF5,
  '100': #F2F4EB,
  '200': #E4E9D2,
  '300': #D3DDB1,
  '400': #BDCC8A,
  '500': #A7BB63,
  '600': #95AA4B,
  '700': #728239,
  '800': #637132,
  '900': #495327,
  '950': #2E3419,
);
$brand-base: #728239;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2F4EB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E4E9D2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D3DDB1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BDCC8A", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A7BB63", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#95AA4B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#728239", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#637132", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#495327", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2E3419", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #728239 · 4.97:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.23:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.97:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #728239 as text scores 4.23:1 on white and 4.97:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4E5927 at 1.79:1.

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
#6C7B36 · 4.64:1
AA on white−2% L
#6C7B36
The quick fox
#505B28 · 7.32:1
AAA on white−11% L
#505B28
The quick fox
#728239 · 4.97:1
AA on blackalready passes
#728239
The quick fox
#8B9E46 · 7.08:1
AAA on black+8% L
#8B9E46

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #728239 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
#728239 on white: 4.23:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#728239 on black: 4.97:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #728239 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #728239.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.23:1AaAa
Slate 504.04:1AaAa
Slate 1003.86:1AaAa
Slate 2003.43:1AaAa
Slate 3002.85:1AaAa
Slate 4001.65:1AaAa
Slate 5001.13:1AaAa
Slate 6001.79:1AaAa
Slate 7002.45:1AaAa
Slate 8003.46:1AaAa
Slate 9004.22:1AaAa
Black4.97:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #8A7B32
deuteranopia · #887B3D
tritanopia · #787C72

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. #728239 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.

#F9FAF5
#F2F4EB
#E4E9D2
#D3DDB1
#BDCC8A
#A7BB63
#95AA4B
#728239
#637132
#495327
#2E3419
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F9FAF5Darkest = 950 · #2E3419Text 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 0.025 119.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 119.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.060 119.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.078 119.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.092 119.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.100 119.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.100 119.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.094 119.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.084 119.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.070 119.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.055 119.9);
}

Colors that work with #728239

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#DFE6C6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#899B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#353886
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4E5927
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5F7ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#212414
Dark-mode background
Hover#5C692E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#475023
Two steps down
Disabled#A3AD7F
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#849B35
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 #728239

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 #4E5927
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
  • Weight63/100
  • 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#493982
Analogous left#826E39
Analogous right#4E8239
Split-complement 1#394E82
Split-complement 2#6E3982
Triadic 1#397282
Triadic 2#823972
Tetradic#39826E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°73°

#728239 sits at 73°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red44.7%
Green51.0%
Blue22.4%
R · 0–255
114
0x72
G · 0–255
130
0x82
B · 0–255
57
0x39

CMYK percentages

Cyan12.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow56.2%
Key (black)49.0%

Total ink coverage is 118%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#728239 text on a black background

contrast 4.97:1

Card sample

#728239 text on a white background

contrast 4.23:1

Card sample

#728239 on grey

3.86:1

#728239 on its own surface

4.03:1

#728239 on its dark surface

3.74:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #728239;
Background color
Panel with #728239 background
background-color: #728239;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #728239;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(114, 130, 57, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(114, 130, 57, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #728239;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #728239, #418239);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #728239, #398243);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #728239;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #728239;
caret-color: #728239;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #728239;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5F7ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #728239;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#728239 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #728239 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(114, 130, 57, 0.5)
rgb(114 130 57 / 50%)
#72823980
hsl(73 39% 37% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #728239 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7282391a#F1F3EB
20%#72823933#E3E6D7
40%#72823966#C7CDB0
60%#72823999#AAB488
80%#728239cc#8E9B61

Gradients from #728239

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, #97AD4C, #728239 45%, #4E5927);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #728239, #326D30);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #728239, #493982);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A5B95E 0%, #728239 45%, #4E5927 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%, #A68449 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #539742 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4E5927 0%, transparent 65%), #728239;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #728239

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.

#728239 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 4.97:1.

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.

#728239, answered

What color is #728239?

#728239 is a dark soft green, closest to Olive Drab (ΔE2000 6.2). It sits at 73° on the hue wheel with 39% saturation and 37% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #728239?

rgb(114, 130, 57) — 114 red, 130 green and 57 blue out of 255, or 44.7% / 51% / 22.4% by channel.

What is #728239 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(73, 39%, 37%) and hsv(73, 56%, 51%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #728239 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1984 and perceived brightness is 47%, so black text on it reaches 4.97:1.

Should I use black or white text on #728239?

Black. It scores 4.97:1 against #728239, versus 4.23:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #728239 accessible on a white background?

#728239 on white scores 4.23:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #6C7B36 to reach 4.5:1, or #505B28 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #728239?

#493982 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #394E82 and #6E3982, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #728239?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #DFE6C6 for borders, #899B4B for secondary text, #353886 as an accent and #4E5927 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #826E39 and #4E8239 stays calm, while #493982 is the loudest partner.

What is #728239 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(12%, 0%, 56%, 49%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #728239 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 #827739; nudged cooler, #578437.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #728239?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 22 away. That is a visible difference, so define #728239 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #728239 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#728239] or text-[#728239], 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 #728239 with 50% opacity?

rgba(114, 130, 57, 0.5), or #72823980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B9C19C; over black, #39411D.

Is #728239 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669933, ΔE2000 9.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #728239 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 #728239?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #97AD4C, #728239 45%, #4E5927). For more colour, a short hue run to #326D30 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #728239 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #728239 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.