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#7ae7ad

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

Token name suggestion: Linen Basil

RGB
122, 231, 173
HSL
148°, 69%, 69%
CMYK
47, 0, 25, 9
Luminance
0.6431

#7ae7ad is a light vivid green, 148° on the wheel and 74/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.86:1). As text it scores 1.52:1 on white — use #18874C instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(148 69% 69%)rgb(122 231 173)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7ae7ad is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7ae7ad
Hue
148°
green
Saturation
69%
vivid
Lightness
69%
light
Brightness
91%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6431
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
74/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.86:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 7
Chroma
48.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.848
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 12.9
Web-safe
#66FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue148° of 360°
Saturation69%
Lightness69%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7ae7ad.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool74% 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#7ae7ad
HEX (8-digit)#7ae7adff
RGBrgb(122, 231, 173)
RGBArgba(122, 231, 173, 1)
HSLhsl(148, 69%, 69%)
HSV / HSBhsv(148, 47%, 91%)
HWBhwb(148 48% 9%)
CMYKcmyk(47%, 0%, 25%, 9%)
LABlab(84.1 -44.4 18.7)
LCHlch(84.1 48.1 157.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.848 0.131 158.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(44.14, 64.30, 49.61)
Decimal8054701
Display P3color(display-p3 0.478 0.906 0.678)
Web-safe#66FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7ae7ad;
background-color: #7ae7ad;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7ae7ad;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7ae7ad] bg-[#7ae7ad]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7ae7ad;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.478, green: 0.906, blue: 0.678)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.478, green: 0.906, blue: 0.678, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7AE7AD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7AE7AD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7AE7AD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(173, 231, 122)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(122, 231, 173)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(122, 231, 173)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 122, 231, 173)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4784f, 0.9059f, 0.6784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{122,231,173}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7ae7ad 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7ae7ad 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#146C3D, #D3EEE0);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7ae7ad 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: #F3FBF7;
  --brand-100: #E7F8EF;
  --brand-200: #CAF2DD;
  --brand-300: #A0EEC4;
  --brand-400: #7ae7ad;
  --brand-500: #41DD8A;
  --brand-600: #25CF75;
  --brand-700: #1FAD62;
  --brand-800: #198A4E;
  --brand-900: #16643B;
  --brand-950: #0E3F25;
  --brand: #7ae7ad;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD5;
  --brand-hover: #5CE29A;
  --brand-pressed: #3DDC88;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241C;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE0;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FBF7',
        100: '#E7F8EF',
        200: '#CAF2DD',
        300: '#A0EEC4',
        400: '#7ae7ad',
        500: '#41DD8A',
        600: '#25CF75',
        700: '#1FAD62',
        800: '#198A4E',
        900: '#16643B',
        950: '#0E3F25',
        DEFAULT: '#7ae7ad',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FBF7,
  '100': #E7F8EF,
  '200': #CAF2DD,
  '300': #A0EEC4,
  '400': #7ae7ad,
  '500': #41DD8A,
  '600': #25CF75,
  '700': #1FAD62,
  '800': #198A4E,
  '900': #16643B,
  '950': #0E3F25,
);
$brand-base: #7ae7ad;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FBF7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F8EF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CAF2DD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A0EEC4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7ae7ad", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#41DD8A", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#25CF75", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1FAD62", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#198A4E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#16643B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0E3F25", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7ae7ad · 13.86:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.52:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.86:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7ae7ad as text scores 1.52:1 on white and 13.86:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #146C3D at 4.28:1.

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
#18874C · 4.56:1
AA on white−38% L
#18874C
The quick fox
#126439 · 7.22:1
AAA on white−46% L
#126439
The quick fox
#7ae7ad · 13.86:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7ae7ad
The quick fox
#7ae7ad · 13.86:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7ae7ad

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #1FA960 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
#7ae7ad on white: 1.52:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7ae7ad on black: 13.86:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7ae7ad as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7ae7ad.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.52:1AaAa
Slate 501.45:1AaAa
Slate 1001.38:1AaAa
Slate 2001.23:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.69:1AaAa
Slate 5003.14:1AaAa
Slate 6005.00:1AaAa
Slate 7006.83:1AaAa
Slate 8009.66:1AaAa
Slate 90011.78:1AaAa
Black13.86:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E5D9AA
deuteranopia · #D5CDB0
tritanopia · #5DE6D7

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. #7ae7ad 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.

#F3FBF7
#E7F8EF
#CAF2DD
#A0EEC4
#7ae7ad
#41DD8A
#25CF75
#1FAD62
#198A4E
#16643B
#0E3F25
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F3FBF7Darkest = 950 · #0E3F25Text 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 0.033 158.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.052 158.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.079 158.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.102 158.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.121 158.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.131 158.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.131 158.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.123 158.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.110 158.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.092 158.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.072 158.6);
}

Colors that work with #7ae7ad

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#F4FAF7
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDD5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B70
Captions on the surface
Accent#B11B90
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#146C3D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FBF2
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241C
Dark-mode background
Hover#5CE29A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#3DDC88
Two steps down
Disabled#E4EDE8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#84F1B7
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 #7ae7ad

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 #146C3D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #1FA960

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
  • Weight31/100
  • 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#E77AB4
Analogous left#7DE77A
Analogous right#7AE7E4
Split-complement 1#E47AE7
Split-complement 2#E77A7D
Triadic 1#AD7AE7
Triadic 2#E7AD7A
Tetradic#7A7DE7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°148°

#7ae7ad sits at 148°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red47.8%
Green90.6%
Blue67.8%
R · 0–255
122
0x7a
G · 0–255
231
0xe7
B · 0–255
173
0xad

CMYK percentages

Cyan47.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow25.1%
Key (black)9.4%

Total ink coverage is 82%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7ae7ad text on a black background

contrast 13.86:1

Card sample

#7ae7ad text on a white background

contrast 1.52:1

Card sample

#7ae7ad on grey

1.38:1

#7ae7ad on its own surface

1.43:1

#7ae7ad on its dark surface

10.67:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7ae7ad;
Background color
Panel with #7ae7ad background
background-color: #7ae7ad;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7ae7ad;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(122, 231, 173, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(122, 231, 173, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7ae7ad;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7ae7ad, #7AD8E7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7ae7ad, #7ABDE7);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7ae7ad;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7ae7ad;
caret-color: #7ae7ad;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7ae7ad;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FBF2;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7ae7ad;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7ae7ad 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7ae7ad 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(122, 231, 173, 0.5)
rgb(122 231 173 / 50%)
#7ae7ad80
hsl(148 69% 69% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7ae7ad 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7ae7ad1a#F2FDF7
20%#7ae7ad33#E4FAEF
40%#7ae7ad66#CAF5DE
60%#7ae7ad99#AFF1CE
80%#7ae7adcc#95ECBD

Gradients from #7ae7ad

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, #AEF0CD, #7ae7ad 45%, #146C3D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7ae7ad, #60C6E2);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7ae7ad, #E77AB4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C8F5DD 0%, #7ae7ad 45%, #146C3D 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #AEEFA5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #94E7EC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #146C3D 0%, transparent 65%), #7ae7ad;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7ae7ad

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.

#7ae7ad 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 13.86:1.

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.

#7ae7ad, answered

What color is #7ae7ad?

#7ae7ad is a light vivid green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 7). It sits at 148° on the hue wheel with 69% saturation and 69% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7ae7ad?

rgb(122, 231, 173) — 122 red, 231 green and 173 blue out of 255, or 47.8% / 90.6% / 67.8% by channel.

What is #7ae7ad in HSL and HSV?

hsl(148, 69%, 69%) and hsv(148, 47%, 91%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7ae7ad a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6431 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 13.86:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7ae7ad?

Black. It scores 13.86:1 against #7ae7ad, versus 1.52:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7ae7ad accessible on a white background?

#7ae7ad on white scores 1.52:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #18874C to reach 4.5:1, or #126439 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7ae7ad?

#E77AB4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E47AE7 and #E77A7D, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7ae7ad?

For interface work: #F4FAF7 as the surface, #C0EDD5 for borders, #4B9B70 for secondary text, #B11B90 as an accent and #146C3D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7DE77A and #7AE7E4 stays calm, while #E77AB4 is the loudest partner.

What is #7ae7ad in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(47%, 0%, 25%, 9%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7ae7ad warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 74 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #7AE785; nudged cooler, #78E9D6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7ae7ad?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 12.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7ae7ad as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7ae7ad in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7ae7ad] or text-[#7ae7ad], 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 #7ae7ad with 50% opacity?

rgba(122, 231, 173, 0.5), or #7ae7ad80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BDF3D6; over black, #3D7457.

Is #7ae7ad a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66FF99, ΔE2000 8.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7ae7ad 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 #7ae7ad?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #AEF0CD, #7ae7ad 45%, #146C3D). For more colour, a short hue run to #60C6E2 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7ae7ad in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7ae7ad at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.