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#76a16a

a balanced, soft green · neutral · closest name: Dark Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Signal Moss

RGB
118, 161, 106
HSL
107°, 23%, 52%
CMYK
27, 0, 34, 37
Luminance
0.3038

#76a16a is a balanced soft green, 107° on the wheel and 55/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.08:1). As text it scores 2.97:1 on white — use #5A7E50 instead. Nearest name is Dark Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(107 23% 52%)rgb(118 161 106)Base step 500AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #76a16a is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#76a16a
Hue
107°
green
Saturation
23%
soft
Lightness
52%
balanced
Brightness
63%
HSV value
Perceived
56%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3038
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
55/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
7.08:1
Closest name
Dark Sea Green
ΔE2000 8.6
Chroma
35.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.663
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 12.5
Web-safe
#669966
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue107° of 360°
Saturation23%
Lightness52%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #76a16a.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool55% 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
Red13%
Green84%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#76a16a
HEX (8-digit)#76a16aff
RGBrgb(118, 161, 106)
RGBArgba(118, 161, 106, 1)
HSLhsl(107, 23%, 52%)
HSV / HSBhsv(107, 34%, 63%)
HWBhwb(107 42% 37%)
CMYKcmyk(27%, 0%, 34%, 37%)
LABlab(62.0 -25.4 24.1)
LCHlch(62.0 35.0 136.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.663 0.092 139.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(22.82, 30.38, 18.29)
Decimal7774570
Display P3color(display-p3 0.463 0.631 0.416)
Web-safe#669966

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #76a16a;
background-color: #76a16a;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #76a16a;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#76a16a] bg-[#76a16a]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #76a16a;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.463, green: 0.631, blue: 0.416)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.463, green: 0.631, blue: 0.416, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#76A16A</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF76A16A)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF76A16A)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(106, 161, 118)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(118, 161, 106)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(118, 161, 106)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 118, 161, 106)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4627f, 0.6314f, 0.4157f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{118,161,106}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #76a16a 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #76a16a 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#384E31, #DDE7D9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #76a16a 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: #F7F9F6;
  --brand-100: #EEF2ED;
  --brand-200: #DAE4D7;
  --brand-300: #C0D4BA;
  --brand-400: #A0BE98;
  --brand-500: #76a16a;
  --brand-600: #6B965F;
  --brand-700: #597D4F;
  --brand-800: #47643F;
  --brand-900: #364A30;
  --brand-950: #222E1E;
  --brand: #76a16a;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F9F6;
  --brand-border: #D1DFCD;
  --brand-hover: #658E5A;
  --brand-pressed: #55784C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #182216;
    --brand-ink: #DDE7D9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F9F6',
        100: '#EEF2ED',
        200: '#DAE4D7',
        300: '#C0D4BA',
        400: '#A0BE98',
        500: '#76a16a',
        600: '#6B965F',
        700: '#597D4F',
        800: '#47643F',
        900: '#364A30',
        950: '#222E1E',
        DEFAULT: '#76a16a',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F9F6,
  '100': #EEF2ED,
  '200': #DAE4D7,
  '300': #C0D4BA,
  '400': #A0BE98,
  '500': #76a16a,
  '600': #6B965F,
  '700': #597D4F,
  '800': #47643F,
  '900': #364A30,
  '950': #222E1E,
);
$brand-base: #76a16a;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEF2ED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DAE4D7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C0D4BA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A0BE98", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#76a16a", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6B965F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#597D4F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#47643F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#364A30", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#222E1E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #76a16a · 7.08:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.97:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.08:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #76a16a as text scores 2.97:1 on white and 7.08:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #384E31 at 3.07:1.

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
#5A7E50 · 4.63:1
AA on white−12% L
#5A7E50
The quick fox
#445F3C · 7.12:1
AAA on white−22% L
#445F3C
The quick fox
#76a16a · 7.08:1
AA on blackalready passes
#76a16a
The quick fox
#76a16a · 7.08:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#76a16a

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #739F67 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
#76a16a on white: 2.97:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#76a16a on black: 7.08:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #76a16a as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #76a16a.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.97:1AaAa
Slate 502.84:1AaAa
Slate 1002.71:1AaAa
Slate 2002.41:1AaAa
Slate 3002.00:1AaAa
Slate 4001.16:1AaAa
Slate 5001.60:1AaAa
Slate 6002.55:1AaAa
Slate 7003.49:1AaAa
Slate 8004.93:1AaAa
Slate 9006.02:1AaAa
Black7.08:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #A49866
deuteranopia · #9E946D
tritanopia · #749D93

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. #76a16a 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.

#F7F9F6
#EEF2ED
#DAE4D7
#C0D4BA
#A0BE98
#76a16a
#6B965F
#597D4F
#47643F
#364A30
#222E1E
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F7F9F6Darkest = 950 · #222E1EText step on white = 700
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 0.023 139.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 139.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.055 139.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.072 139.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.084 139.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.092 139.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.092 139.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.086 139.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.077 139.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.064 139.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.050 139.0);
}

Colors that work with #76a16a

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#F6F9F6
Tinted page background
Border#D1DFCD
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#648D59
Captions on the surface
Accent#8865A6
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#384E31
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1F5EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#182216
Dark-mode background
Hover#658E5A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#55784C
Two steps down
Disabled#B6CCAF
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7BB46C
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 #76a16a

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #384E31
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #739F67

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 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
  • Weight48/100
  • 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#956AA1
Analogous left#92A16A
Analogous right#6AA17A
Split-complement 1#7A6AA1
Split-complement 2#A16A92
Triadic 1#6A76A1
Triadic 2#A16A76
Tetradic#6A92A1
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°107°

#76a16a sits at 107°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red46.3%
Green63.1%
Blue41.6%
R · 0–255
118
0x76
G · 0–255
161
0xa1
B · 0–255
106
0x6a

CMYK percentages

Cyan26.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow34.2%
Key (black)36.9%

Total ink coverage is 98%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#76a16a text on a black background

contrast 7.08:1

Card sample

#76a16a text on a white background

contrast 2.97:1

Card sample

#76a16a on grey

2.71:1

#76a16a on its own surface

2.80:1

#76a16a on its dark surface

5.53:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #76a16a;
Background color
Panel with #76a16a background
background-color: #76a16a;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #76a16a;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(118, 161, 106, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(118, 161, 106, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #76a16a;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #76a16a, #6AA183);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #76a16a, #6AA191);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #76a16a;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #76a16a;
caret-color: #76a16a;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #76a16a;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1F5EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #76a16a;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#76a16a 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #76a16a 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(118, 161, 106, 0.5)
rgb(118 161 106 / 50%)
#76a16a80
hsl(107 23% 52% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #76a16a 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#76a16a1a#F1F6F0
20%#76a16a33#E4ECE1
40%#76a16a66#C8D9C3
60%#76a16a99#ADC7A6
80%#76a16acc#91B488

Gradients from #76a16a

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, #99B990, #76a16a 45%, #384E31);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #76a16a, #5C9178);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #76a16a, #956AA1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #AAC5A2 0%, #76a16a 45%, #384E31 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F9F6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #ACB589 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #7DAD8E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #384E31 0%, transparent 65%), #76a16a;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #76a16a

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.

#76a16a 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 7.08:1.

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.

#76a16a, answered

What color is #76a16a?

#76a16a is a balanced soft green, closest to Dark Sea Green (ΔE2000 8.6). It sits at 107° on the hue wheel with 23% saturation and 52% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #76a16a?

rgb(118, 161, 106) — 118 red, 161 green and 106 blue out of 255, or 46.3% / 63.1% / 41.6% by channel.

What is #76a16a in HSL and HSV?

hsl(107, 23%, 52%) and hsv(107, 34%, 63%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #76a16a a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3038 and perceived brightness is 56%, so black text on it reaches 7.08:1.

Should I use black or white text on #76a16a?

Black. It scores 7.08:1 against #76a16a, versus 2.97:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #76a16a accessible on a white background?

#76a16a on white scores 2.97:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5A7E50 to reach 4.5:1, or #445F3C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #76a16a?

#956AA1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #7A6AA1 and #A16A92, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #76a16a?

For interface work: #F6F9F6 as the surface, #D1DFCD for borders, #648D59 for secondary text, #8865A6 as an accent and #384E31 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #92A16A and #6AA17A stays calm, while #956AA1 is the loudest partner.

What is #76a16a in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(27%, 0%, 34%, 37%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #76a16a warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 55 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #8AA16A; nudged cooler, #68A371.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #76a16a?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 12.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #76a16a as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #76a16a in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#76a16a] or text-[#76a16a], 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 #76a16a with 50% opacity?

rgba(118, 161, 106, 0.5), or #76a16a80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BBD0B5; over black, #3B5135.

Is #76a16a a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669966, ΔE2000 3.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #76a16a 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 #76a16a?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #99B990, #76a16a 45%, #384E31). For more colour, a short hue run to #5C9178 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #76a16a in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #76a16a at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.