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#74df36

a balanced, vivid green · neutral · closest name: Lime Green

Token name suggestion: Signal Basil

RGB
116, 223, 54
HSL
98°, 73%, 54%
CMYK
48, 0, 76, 13
Luminance
0.5675

#74df36 is a balanced vivid green, 98° on the wheel and 53/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.35:1). As text it scores 1.70:1 on white — use #3E8515 instead. Nearest name is Lime Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(98 73% 54%)rgb(116 223 54)Base step 500AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #74df36 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#74df36
Hue
98°
green
Saturation
73%
vivid
Lightness
54%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
72%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5675
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
53/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
12.35:1
Closest name
Lime Green
ΔE2000 6.7
Chroma
89.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.809
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 5.7
Web-safe
#66CC33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue98° of 360°
Saturation73%
Lightness54%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #74df36.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool53% 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
Red7%
Green93%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#74df36
HEX (8-digit)#74df36ff
RGBrgb(116, 223, 54)
RGBArgba(116, 223, 54, 1)
HSLhsl(98, 73%, 54%)
HSV / HSBhsv(98, 76%, 87%)
HWBhwb(98 21% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(48%, 0%, 76%, 13%)
LABlab(80.0 -58.1 68.0)
LCHlch(80.0 89.5 130.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.809 0.222 136.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(34.25, 56.75, 12.64)
Decimal7659318
Display P3color(display-p3 0.455 0.875 0.212)
Web-safe#66CC33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #74df36;
background-color: #74df36;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #74df36;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#74df36] bg-[#74df36]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #74df36;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.455, green: 0.875, blue: 0.212)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.455, green: 0.875, blue: 0.212, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#74DF36</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF74DF36)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF74DF36)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(54, 223, 116)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(116, 223, 54)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(116, 223, 54)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 116, 223, 54)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4549f, 0.8745f, 0.2118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{116,223,54}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #74df36 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #74df36 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#336E12, #DDEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #74df36 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: #F6FCF3;
  --brand-100: #EDF8E7;
  --brand-200: #D8F3C9;
  --brand-300: #BCF09E;
  --brand-400: #9BE86E;
  --brand-500: #74df36;
  --brand-600: #63D322;
  --brand-700: #52B01C;
  --brand-800: #428D16;
  --brand-900: #326614;
  --brand-950: #1F400D;
  --brand: #74df36;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D0EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #61D021;
  --brand-pressed: #53B11C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1A2414;
    --brand-ink: #DDEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6FCF3',
        100: '#EDF8E7',
        200: '#D8F3C9',
        300: '#BCF09E',
        400: '#9BE86E',
        500: '#74df36',
        600: '#63D322',
        700: '#52B01C',
        800: '#428D16',
        900: '#326614',
        950: '#1F400D',
        DEFAULT: '#74df36',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6FCF3,
  '100': #EDF8E7,
  '200': #D8F3C9,
  '300': #BCF09E,
  '400': #9BE86E,
  '500': #74df36,
  '600': #63D322,
  '700': #52B01C,
  '800': #428D16,
  '900': #326614,
  '950': #1F400D,
);
$brand-base: #74df36;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EDF8E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D8F3C9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BCF09E", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#9BE86E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#74df36", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#63D322", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#52B01C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#428D16", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#326614", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1F400D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #74df36 · 12.35:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.70:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.35:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #74df36 as text scores 1.70:1 on white and 12.35:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #336E12 at 3.65:1.

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
#3E8515 · 4.59:1
AA on white−24% L
#3E8515
The quick fox
#2E6210 · 7.32:1
AAA on white−32% L
#2E6210
The quick fox
#74df36 · 12.35:1
AA on blackalready passes
#74df36
The quick fox
#74df36 · 12.35:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#74df36

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4FA81B 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
#74df36 on white: 1.70:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#74df36 on black: 12.35:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #74df36 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #74df36.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.70:1AaAa
Slate 501.63:1AaAa
Slate 1001.55:1AaAa
Slate 2001.38:1AaAa
Slate 3001.15:1AaAa
Slate 4001.51:1AaAa
Slate 5002.80:1AaAa
Slate 6004.46:1AaAa
Slate 7006.09:1AaAa
Slate 8008.60:1AaAa
Slate 90010.50:1AaAa
Black12.35:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E7CC09
deuteranopia · #D9C348
tritanopia · #6ED7BF

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. #74df36 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.

#F6FCF3
#EDF8E7
#D8F3C9
#BCF09E
#9BE86E
#74df36
#63D322
#52B01C
#428D16
#326614
#1F400D
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F6FCF3Darkest = 950 · #1F400DText 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 0.055 136.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.089 136.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.133 136.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.173 136.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.204 136.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.222 136.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.222 136.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.208 136.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.186 136.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.155 136.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.122 136.8);
}

Colors that work with #74df36

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#F7FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#D0EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#689B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#7631E4
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#336E12
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0FBE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1A2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#61D021
One step down in lightness
Pressed#53B11C
Two steps down
Disabled#BFD0B5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7DEC3D
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 #74df36

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #336E12
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4FA81B

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 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-high
  • Weight46/100
  • 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#A136DF
Analogous left#C8DF36
Analogous right#36DF4D
Split-complement 1#4D36DF
Split-complement 2#DF36C8
Triadic 1#3674DF
Triadic 2#DF3674
Tetradic#36C8DF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°98°

#74df36 sits at 98°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red45.5%
Green87.5%
Blue21.2%
R · 0–255
116
0x74
G · 0–255
223
0xdf
B · 0–255
54
0x36

CMYK percentages

Cyan48.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow75.8%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 136%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#74df36 text on a black background

contrast 12.35:1

Card sample

#74df36 text on a white background

contrast 1.70:1

Card sample

#74df36 on grey

1.55:1

#74df36 on its own surface

1.61:1

#74df36 on its dark surface

9.45:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #74df36;
Background color
Panel with #74df36 background
background-color: #74df36;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #74df36;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(116, 223, 54, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(116, 223, 54, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #74df36;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #74df36, #36DF69);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #74df36, #36DF93);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #74df36;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #74df36;
caret-color: #74df36;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #74df36;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0FBE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #74df36;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#74df36 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #74df36 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(116, 223, 54, 0.5)
rgb(116 223 54 / 50%)
#74df3680
hsl(98 73% 54% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #74df36 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#74df361a#F1FCEB
20%#74df3633#E3F9D7
40%#74df3666#C7F2AF
60%#74df3699#ACEC86
80%#74df36cc#90E55E

Gradients from #74df36

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, #98E76B, #74df36 45%, #336E12);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #74df36, #22D466);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #74df36, #A136DF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #ABEC85 0%, #74df36 45%, #336E12 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DFE662 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #50E370 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #336E12 0%, transparent 65%), #74df36;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #74df36

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.

#74df36 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 12.35:1.

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.

#74df36, answered

What color is #74df36?

#74df36 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Lime Green (ΔE2000 6.7). It sits at 98° on the hue wheel with 73% saturation and 54% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #74df36?

rgb(116, 223, 54) — 116 red, 223 green and 54 blue out of 255, or 45.5% / 87.5% / 21.2% by channel.

What is #74df36 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(98, 73%, 54%) and hsv(98, 76%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #74df36 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5675 and perceived brightness is 72%, so black text on it reaches 12.35:1.

Should I use black or white text on #74df36?

Black. It scores 12.35:1 against #74df36, versus 1.70:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #74df36 accessible on a white background?

#74df36 on white scores 1.70:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3E8515 to reach 4.5:1, or #2E6210 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #74df36?

#A136DF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #4D36DF and #DF36C8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #74df36?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D0EDC0 for borders, #689B4B for secondary text, #7631E4 as an accent and #336E12 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C8DF36 and #36DF4D stays calm, while #A136DF is the loudest partner.

What is #74df36 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(48%, 0%, 76%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #74df36 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 53 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #B2DF36; nudged cooler, #34E134.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #74df36?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 5.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #74df36 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #74df36 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#74df36] or text-[#74df36], 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 #74df36 with 50% opacity?

rgba(116, 223, 54, 0.5), or #74df3680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BAEF9B; over black, #3A701B.

Is #74df36 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC33, ΔE2000 4.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #74df36 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 #74df36?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #98E76B, #74df36 45%, #336E12). For more colour, a short hue run to #22D466 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #74df36 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #74df36 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.