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#79a720

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Basil

RGB
121, 167, 32
HSL
80°, 68%, 39%
CMYK
28, 0, 81, 35
Luminance
0.3181

#79a720 is a dark vivid green, 80° on the wheel and 42/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.36:1). As text it scores 2.85:1 on white — use #5D8019 instead. Nearest name is Olive Drab, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(80 68% 39%)rgb(121 167 32)Base step 700AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #79a720 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#79a720
Hue
80°
green
Saturation
68%
vivid
Lightness
39%
dark
Brightness
65%
HSV value
Perceived
57%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3181
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
42/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
7.36:1
Closest name
Olive Drab
ΔE2000 8.2
Chroma
68.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.671
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 10.1
Web-safe
#669933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue80° of 360°
Saturation68%
Lightness39%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #79a720.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool42% 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
Red13%
Green87%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#79a720
HEX (8-digit)#79a720ff
RGBrgb(121, 167, 32)
RGBArgba(121, 167, 32, 1)
HSLhsl(80, 68%, 39%)
HSV / HSBhsv(80, 81%, 65%)
HWBhwb(80 13% 35%)
CMYKcmyk(28%, 0%, 81%, 35%)
LABlab(63.2 -34.5 59.0)
LCHlch(63.2 68.3 120.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.671 0.163 127.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(21.96, 31.81, 6.35)
Decimal7972640
Display P3color(display-p3 0.475 0.655 0.125)
Web-safe#669933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #79a720;
background-color: #79a720;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #79a720;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#79a720] bg-[#79a720]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #79a720;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.475, green: 0.655, blue: 0.125)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.475, green: 0.655, blue: 0.125, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#79A720</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF79A720)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF79A720)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(32, 167, 121)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(121, 167, 32)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(121, 167, 32)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 121, 167, 32)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4745f, 0.6549f, 0.1255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{121,167,32}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #79a720 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #79a720 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4E6B15, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #79a720 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: #F9FBF3;
  --brand-100: #F2F8E8;
  --brand-200: #E4F2CA;
  --brand-300: #D3EDA1;
  --brand-400: #BDE472;
  --brand-500: #A7DB43;
  --brand-600: #95CD27;
  --brand-700: #79a720;
  --brand-800: #63891A;
  --brand-900: #496317;
  --brand-950: #2E3E0E;
  --brand: #79a720;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DDEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #63891A;
  --brand-pressed: #4E6B15;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF3',
        100: '#F2F8E8',
        200: '#E4F2CA',
        300: '#D3EDA1',
        400: '#BDE472',
        500: '#A7DB43',
        600: '#95CD27',
        700: '#79a720',
        800: '#63891A',
        900: '#496317',
        950: '#2E3E0E',
        DEFAULT: '#79a720',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF3,
  '100': #F2F8E8,
  '200': #E4F2CA,
  '300': #D3EDA1,
  '400': #BDE472,
  '500': #A7DB43,
  '600': #95CD27,
  '700': #79a720,
  '800': #63891A,
  '900': #496317,
  '950': #2E3E0E,
);
$brand-base: #79a720;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FBF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2F8E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E4F2CA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D3EDA1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BDE472", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A7DB43", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#95CD27", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#79a720", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#63891A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#496317", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2E3E0E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #79a720 · 7.36:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.85:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.36:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #79a720 as text scores 2.85:1 on white and 7.36:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4E6B15 at 2.14:1.

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
#5D8019 · 4.60:1
AA on white−9% L
#5D8019
The quick fox
#445E12 · 7.35:1
AAA on white−17% L
#445E12
The quick fox
#79a720 · 7.36:1
AA on blackalready passes
#79a720
The quick fox
#79a720 · 7.36:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#79a720

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #739E1E 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
#79a720 on white: 2.85:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#79a720 on black: 7.36:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #79a720 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #79a720.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.85:1AaAa
Slate 502.73:1AaAa
Slate 1002.60:1AaAa
Slate 2002.31:1AaAa
Slate 3001.92:1AaAa
Slate 4001.11:1AaAa
Slate 5001.67:1AaAa
Slate 6002.66:1AaAa
Slate 7003.63:1AaAa
Slate 8005.13:1AaAa
Slate 9006.26:1AaAa
Black7.36:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B09B00
deuteranopia · #AA982F
tritanopia · #7E9F8E

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. #79a720 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.

#F9FBF3
#F2F8E8
#E4F2CA
#D3EDA1
#BDE472
#A7DB43
#95CD27
#79a720
#63891A
#496317
#2E3E0E
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF3Darkest = 950 · #2E3E0EText 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 0.041 127.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.065 127.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.098 127.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.127 127.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.150 127.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.163 127.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.163 127.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.153 127.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.137 127.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.114 127.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.090 127.6);
}

Colors that work with #79a720

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#F8FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#DDEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#809B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#291CAB
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4E6B15
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5FBEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#63891A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4E6B15
Two steps down
Disabled#A3B186
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#89C318
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 #79a720

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
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • 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
  • 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
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #4E6B15
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #739E1E

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
  • Weight61/100
  • 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#4E20A7
Analogous left#A79120
Analogous right#36A720
Split-complement 1#2036A7
Split-complement 2#9120A7
Triadic 1#2079A7
Triadic 2#A72079
Tetradic#20A791
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°80°

#79a720 sits at 80°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red47.5%
Green65.5%
Blue12.5%
R · 0–255
121
0x79
G · 0–255
167
0xa7
B · 0–255
32
0x20

CMYK percentages

Cyan27.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow80.8%
Key (black)34.5%

Total ink coverage is 143%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#79a720 text on a black background

contrast 7.36:1

Card sample

#79a720 text on a white background

contrast 2.85:1

Card sample

#79a720 on grey

2.60:1

#79a720 on its own surface

2.71:1

#79a720 on its dark surface

5.57:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #79a720;
Background color
Panel with #79a720 background
background-color: #79a720;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #79a720;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(121, 167, 32, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(121, 167, 32, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #79a720;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #79a720, #20A721);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #79a720, #20A743);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #79a720;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #79a720;
caret-color: #79a720;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #79a720;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5FBEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #79a720;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#79a720 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #79a720 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(121, 167, 32, 0.5)
rgb(121 167 32 / 50%)
#79a72080
hsl(80 68% 39% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #79a720 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#79a7201a#F2F6E9
20%#79a72033#E4EDD2
40%#79a72066#C9DCA6
60%#79a72099#AFCA79
80%#79a720cc#94B94D

Gradients from #79a720

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, #9DD72D, #79a720 45%, #4E6B15);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #79a720, #1B8D25);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #79a720, #4E20A7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A9DC47 0%, #79a720 45%, #4E6B15 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #D2A828 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #31C125 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4E6B15 0%, transparent 65%), #79a720;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #79a720

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.

#79a720 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 7.36:1.

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.

#79a720, answered

What color is #79a720?

#79a720 is a dark vivid green, closest to Olive Drab (ΔE2000 8.2). It sits at 80° on the hue wheel with 68% saturation and 39% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #79a720?

rgb(121, 167, 32) — 121 red, 167 green and 32 blue out of 255, or 47.5% / 65.5% / 12.5% by channel.

What is #79a720 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(80, 68%, 39%) and hsv(80, 81%, 65%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #79a720 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3181 and perceived brightness is 57%, so black text on it reaches 7.36:1.

Should I use black or white text on #79a720?

Black. It scores 7.36:1 against #79a720, versus 2.85:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #79a720 accessible on a white background?

#79a720 on white scores 2.85:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5D8019 to reach 4.5:1, or #445E12 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #79a720?

#4E20A7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #2036A7 and #9120A7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #79a720?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DDEDC0 for borders, #809B4B for secondary text, #291CAB as an accent and #4E6B15 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #A79120 and #36A720 stays calm, while #4E20A7 is the loudest partner.

What is #79a720 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(28%, 0%, 81%, 35%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #79a720 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 42 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #A7A320; nudged cooler, #47A91E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #79a720?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 10.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #79a720 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #79a720 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#79a720] or text-[#79a720], 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 #79a720 with 50% opacity?

rgba(121, 167, 32, 0.5), or #79a72080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BCD390; over black, #3D5410.

Is #79a720 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669933, ΔE2000 6.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #79a720 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 #79a720?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9DD72D, #79a720 45%, #4E6B15). For more colour, a short hue run to #1B8D25 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #79a720 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #79a720 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.